Re: Prompt vs Ask

My vote goes for 'prompt'.

Len - where is a good definition of 'prompt' that we can use for a glossary?

Chris

----- Original Message -----
From: Leonard R. Kasday <kasday@acm.org>
To: Gregory J. Rosmaita <unagi69@concentric.net>
Cc: Evaluation & Repair Interest Group <w3c-wai-er-ig@w3.org>; Charles
McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>; Phil Jenkins <pjenkins@us.ibm.com>
Sent: Friday, October 22, 1999 10:52 AM
Subject: Re: Prompt vs Ask


> Gregory,
>
> Linking Prompt to the definition does indeed calm me down on this, given
> that you don't object to hearing prompt prompt prompt prompt prompt as you
> tab though the links.  So it's OK by me, speaking personally that is.
>
> Do we have group consensus that we let the word "Prompt" stand but link it
> to it's definition in the ERT document?
>
> Len
>
>
> At 06:02 PM 10/21/99 -0400, Gregory J. Rosmaita wrote:
> >aloha, len!
> >
> >i like your reformulation,
> >quote
> >   Require the user to provide alternate text for the image
> >unquote
> >
> >the reason that such verbiage probably wouldn't fly with the AU WG,
> however, is
> >that "Require" has restrictive connotations -- such as, if you don't add
ALT
> >text, i won't let you save this page or publish straight to the web...
> >developers whose advice has been solicited by the AU WG bristle at such a
> >connotation, and while the ATAG doesn't preclude a developer from
instituting
> >such a restrictive policy, it certainly doesn't require such Draconian
> >measures, either...
> >
> >(Note: ASWedit, an authoring tool that works in the Unix/Linux
environment,
> >won't let you save a page with invalid markup as html, or so i've been
> told --
> >for more details, consult Charles' McN's evaluation of ASWedit, located
at:
> >        http://www.w3.org/WAI/AU/reviews/asWedit4.0-atag-19990903.html)
> >
> >as for hyperlinking the term "Prompt" to a definition, that is precisely
what
> >the AU WG resolved to do...
> >
> >the proposed re-insertion of the term "Prompt" in ATAG checkpoint 4.2, by
the
> >way, was originally questioned by a W3C member organization's
> representative to
> >the AU WG, who was satisfied that his concerns (and the concerns raised
by
> >developers in the corporation which he represents, and from whom he had
> >solicited feedback on ATAG) were allayed by simply hyperlinking to the
> >definition...
> >
> >gregory.
> >
> >
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