- From: Harvey Bingham <hbingham@acm.org>
- Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 02:13:55 -0400
- To: Judy Brewer <jbrewer@w3.org>, w3c-wai-eo@w3.org
- Cc: ij@w3.org
- Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.19990917013518.009c5ad0@pop.tiac.net>
At 1999-09-17 01:48 AM-0400, Judy Brewer wrote: >EOWG Agenda, September 17, 1999 > >1. Outreach Update The Electronic Book conference at the National Institute of Science and Technology has 600 registered. It is next Tuesday thru Wednesday, in Gaithersburg, MD. Thursday morning will be spent on details of Open Ebook. I have ordered quick tips cards for all. Here is an audience for whom electronic book delivery isn't necessarily related to accessibility. For some, the new game machines are suitable delivery platforms, costing only a few hundred dollars, with CD players, decent graphics, graphic accelerators, and internet connections. The co-sponsor is the National Information Standards Organization. NISO is one of the principal sponsoring organizations for the Digital Talking Book 3 application for whom I've been the lead DTD designer. This application uses SMIL 1.0 for synchronizing the professional narrations with the structured XML markup of the book. Many aspects of e-books will be addressed, in addition to accessibility. George Kerscher will be our advocating speaker. >3. Review new version of first section of "How People With Disabilities Use >the Web" > <http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/Drafts/profiles-19990917.html> > the first section has been substantially revised based on last week's >feedback Editing meta-notation: XdeleteX _insert_ ?question? 1. How Different Disabilities Affect Access to the Web Para 2: ...Limitations can include injury-related and aging-related conditions, and can be temporaryX X,_ _or chronic. An example of an injury-related limitation that is temporary for some people and chronic for others _is _repetitive stress syndrome. Para 3: Different disabilities sometimes require similar accommodations. For instance, _full keyboard support is necessary_ for both someone who is blind and someone who cannot use his or her hands_._ Xrequire full keyboard support for the Xcommands in browsers and authoring tools,X since they both have difficulty using a mouse but can use different assistive technologies to activate commands _and keys_ that are supported by a standard keyboard interface _to allow authoring and browsing._ Para 4: The number and severity of disabilities tend_s_ to increase as people Xwith Xage ... Learning Disabilities another bullet: missing outline and summary information Impairments of intelligence Para 2: ?double negative?...and may benefit from the level of language on a site not being unnecessarily complex for the site's intended purpose. ...and may benefit from summary descriptions, and means to suppress detail. Regards/Harvey
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