Re: Review this week: Media Accessibility User Requirements

Hi All,

A few comments, though overall great to see this draft document appear.
Others I've shown it too have also bee complimentary.

The Abstract didn't give me the impression that we would have a clear list
of requirements, e.g. DV-n, DVT-n, etc. I'd suggest this be added to the
abstract

The document is also missing an introduction to give some context.

Section 2 ...

2.2 low vision - I'm not sure it is correct to say "will have similar
issues as people who are blind". Some will, but many with low vision have a
wide range of issues depend on the cause of their low vision. The current
statement is a bit too general, especially as the rest of the section gives
examples that are not necessarily the same as the issues experienced by
totally blind people (who seem to be the group included in 2.1 rather than
those how are 'legally blind'). The second sentence in 2.2 might add
"discriminating detail".

2.3 - Does atypical colour perception include colour blindness? if yes,
then lets say so. And maybe give examples of other 'atypical colour
perception'.

2.7 - the same issues described here also pertain to people who are blind
and cannot see the player controls. this issues needs to be included
somewhere.

2.8 - this a very broad category. Autism seems to have been specifically
addressed, but there are also ways of addressing some of the other
conditions mentioned and these should be discussed.

Section 3 ...

This section seems to be in an odd order - I would suggest having the
easiest to implement alternative content types first (e.g Transcript
probably)

Is 3.2 text video description a subset of 3.1 video description? It's
mentioned as such in 3.1. if yes, then maybe it should be numbered as such.

Afraid that's as far as I got today.

Andrew

On 20 October 2011 05:09, Shawn Henry <shawn@w3.org> wrote:

> Dear EOWG,
>
> An Editor's Draft of "Media Accessibility User Requirements" is available
> at: http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/**media-a11y-reqs/<http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/media-a11y-reqs/>
> PFWG would like to publish this as a public Working Draft soon.
>
> Please review it this week, send comments to the EOWG list, and prepare to
> discuss it at the teleconference. For each comment, indicate:
> 1. Very important to address before publication as a Working Draft
> 2. Would be good to address before publication as a Working Draft
> 3. Can be addressed after publication as a Working Draft
>
> Please use a fairly relaxed "filter" and indicate 1 only for comments that
> are likely to be a significant issue in a _draft_, e.g., potentially
> offensive language - and keep in mind that this is an early draft and
> additional edits can be made for later drafts.
>
> Thanks,
> ~Shawn
>
>


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