- From: Jason White <jasonw@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au>
- Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 12:30:22 +1100 (EST)
- To: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Thanking William for his valuable comments, here is a brief explanation of what I have attempted to achieve in this draft: 1. I have followed Gregg's suggestion to include the explanations and elaborations in the text of the guidelines. Gregg has argued that this will make the document easier to understand and interpret. 2. I have qualified most of the requirements with explanations and exceptions. This is supposed to address the concern, often expressed in meetings, that guidelines need to specify precisely which kinds of solutions do, and do not, count as satisfying the requirements. 3. I have eliminated unnecessary terminology which is liable to generate confusion. 4. I have eliminated some of the technical assumptions which underpinned earlier drafts (e.g. that all web content is accompanied by author-specified presentations), and which were shown to be erroneous in meeting discussions. There are still technical concerns which haven't been addressed and, as William pointed out, there are explanations and definitions which should be added (we need to agree upon a document structure: where the explanations, qualifications and definitions should reside in relation to the guidelines, how the technology-specific checklists should be arranged). Finally, the non-technical overview needs to be integrated as well. As always, any comments, proposals, alternatives, suggestions etc., are most welcome as we try to reach agreement on the substantive issues before us.
Received on Monday, 11 September 2000 21:32:30 UTC