- From: Wayne Dick <wayneedick@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 02:47:57 -0700
- To: "EOWG (E-mail)" <w3c-wai-eo@w3.org>, Shawn Henry <shawn@w3.org>
Guideline 1.3 Adaptable: Create content that can be presented in different ways (for example simpler layout) without losing information or structure. Current Proposal: Make content adaptable; and make it available to assistive technologies My modification: Assistive technology can change perceptual mode or style with no loss of meaning. Rationale Each item in "At a Glance" is a simple form of a Guideline. 1.3 could be summed up as "separate appearance from meaning", but that is not specific enough for our prompt. I sacrifice brevity by replacing "perceptual mode or appearance" for "presentation". The term "presentation" has become jargon in W3C. This is similar to substituting "browser or media player" for "user agent". I have used the phrase "with no loss of meaning". This may be too terse. It should really be "no loss of structure or information". The two are equal in meaning, but many do not perceive structure as part of meaning. This is an artifact of the fact that people with full access to perceptual cues of style accept their addition to meaning at a pre-concious level. They make the mistake that plain text with no style can convey the same meaning as formatted web text. Hi Everyone, Wayne
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