Re: Draft of re-organized WAI home page

At 1999-07-15 10:32 PM, Judy Brewer <jbrewer@w3.org> wrote:
>EOWG 
>
>For discussion during Friday July 16 meeting:
As this was deferred, and I'm traveling Mon-Thu, I'll not have time to
get back to this in detail. Here are my first reactions to the new
proposed content.
>
>It was easier to think through the re-organization of the home page using a
>mocked-up page, rather than just send around a list of topics. 
>
>Some links are active, some are not; if we like this set-up I'd need to put
>in a number of sub-pages to back these up. Some links are to resources not
>yet created or finalized, so we can see how it hangs together; they'd be
>taken off the actual home page until they're ready.
>
>Here's the draft re-org:
>	http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/Drafts/WAI-home
>Here's the original for comparison:
>	http://www.w3.org/WAI
>
>Is it: clearer? friendlier? easier to get to find really useful resources?
>easier to use by different audiences? etc.?
>

First reactions:

1. Lead paragraph deals only with physical disabilities.
That misses the wider benefit of addressing the common experiences of
the wider group who at times have environmental or equipment limitations.

2. The word "policy links" just isn't strong enough: Suggest "international 
policy and laws". 

3. Working groups: though looks like links are to deliverables, rather than
group pages themselves. Why?

4. Couldn't find members of various groups. Guess that would be under
WAI Participants.

5. Not all readers understand the W3C Recommendation vs Note, and may
wonder what status these have. Related are the techniques to achieve
guidelines. As most of what we are doing is developing guidelines,
checklists, and techniques, so a brief statement of what these are is
worthwhile.


>I realize it's just flat text for now; we can throw in some styling later.
>
>- Judy

Received on Sunday, 18 July 1999 22:18:37 UTC