- From: William Loughborough <love26@gorge.net>
- Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 07:52:38 -0700
- To: Jason White <jasonw@ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU>
- Cc: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
Principle 1: Design content which can be presented visually, auditorily or tactually, according to the needs and preferences of the user. Principle 2: Separate content and structure from presentation, and ensure that significant structural or semantic distinctions are captured explicitly in markup, or in a data model. Principle 3: Design for ease of comprehension, browsing and navigation Principle 4: Design user interfaces for device independence. Principle 5: Design content to be compatible with the features and capabilities of user agents, including those which only support older technologies or standards. There. By looking at them this way (without the lower-echelon stuff) we can make certain judgements more readily. Are they parallel - i.e. are they of comparable gravity, one to the others? Are they inclusive? At first blush I feel that 4 & 5 are implicit in 1, particularly if it is reworded somewhat? In some sense the "user" of 1 is the "device" of 4 and its "needs and preferences" are the "features and capabilities" of 5? If these principles, as I believe, are to be gathering points for the guidelines proper (those vulgar representations of the worldly manifestation of these mighty ideals), they should be very general as well as abstract. To have these 3 or 5 or whatever "principles" serve this function will necessitate deciding which "guideline" belongs under which "principle" so that we need not drag Charles across his "over my dead body" position about the numbering more closely resembling that of WCAG 1 (to avoid confusing his correspondents?). Are the principles to be relegated to preface materials or is it important to have them inform the entire document? I favor the latter but will not go to war over it. The numbering still mattereth not. The principles are the bases of this thing and they seem to me to be what we mean by "normative". I also think the "techniques" will be fairly stable. The "examples" could affect the "guidelines" but are quite unlikely to have much impact on the "principles". That's my morning tuppence worth from where the mountain forest meets the sagebrush desert in the wilds of Central Washington. -- Love. ACCESSIBILITY IS RIGHT - NOT PRIVILEGE
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