Hi Wayne, We discussed this today. We will address it more with other possible edits to WCAG 2.0 at a Glance in the coming weeks. Thanks, ~Shawn Wayne Dick wrote: > 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 > >Received on Friday, 13 August 2010 18:19:25 UTC
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