Re: Standards harmonization document

I mean I'm commenting on it and rephrasing it, not rewriting it, of course.

Alan



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alan Chuter" <achuter@teleservicios.com>
To: "EOWG" <w3c-wai-eo@w3.org>; "Judy Brewer" <jbrewer@w3.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2003 7:10 PM
Subject: Standards harmonization


>
> I've been reading and trying to rewrite this document
> http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/Drafts/standard-harmon.html
>
> It occurs to me that what we actually want is one unified standard, right?
> Not a series of seperate but harmonized standards. I suggest that it might
> be better to talk of unification rather than harmonisation. I don't think
it
> comes across in the document. I realise that we don't want to brazenly
claim
> that WCAG is the one and only true standard, but perhaps we can say
> unification and still be diplomatic. I'm also wondering about using
> "divergence" instead of "fragmentation."
>
> My work so far is at:
> http://www.infoescena.es/achuter/acceso/drafts/standard-harmon_akc.html
>
> I've dived into it where inspiration hit me, at the end of the
introduction,
> but the changes are clearly marked with <ins> and <del>.
>
> I think it could be more readable if we assume that after a couple of
> paragraphs the context is clear, and find a way to substitute phrases like
> "standards harmonization" and "web accessibility" with something shorter
> (like "it" or "this").
>
> regards to all,
>
> Alan Chuter
> Fundosa Teleservicios, S.A.
> achuter@teleservicios.com
>

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