Sv: Question from Last Week's WCAG Teleconference

    Hi,

This is half of the sollution. The other half is to state that the user can at any time during a presentation change preferences e.g. suddenly request sounds images videos or whatever else the server can offer. 2 if I am going to stand any chance of advising webdesigners I as a blind person has to be able to get presentations or actual content depending on many things the choice of language and so on, to advice authors on accessability issues.
I am worried about the idea that specialized user experiences will solve many problems because I have never seen a system that is capable of behaving in accordance with my very unstable and often unprodictable preferences in other ways than by obbying my commands.

Claus

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-edapta@idyllmtn.com>
To: Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>
Cc: <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 1:01 PM
Subject: Question from Last Week's WCAG Teleconference


> Ian, (interesting 3.1 proposal BTW) there was a discussion regarding
> "identifying the equivalency relationships" that related to a
> conversation you and I had at Bristol during a break.  The minutes
> captured my comments this way:
> 
>  >KB This assumption comes with the idea that there is an optimal 
>  >presentation. From our work, there are different ways of presenting 
>  >information. I don't need to present to a visual user if they have said, 
>  >"don't play me sound" to let them know that there is sound here. I spoke 
>  >with Ian about this because it sounded odd. He specifically said it has to 
>  >be clear in the markup or the data model. It may be on my server - an 
>  >explicit representation between this image and this text. He said that as 
>  >long as in the data model, I would be covered. This does not have to be sent 
>  >to the user.
> 
> I don't know if I am accurately portraying your viewpoint on this,
> but it's an accurate summary of what I understood at the time.  I feel
> that we might have been getting bogged down a bit on this proposal and
> missed the "...or in the data model" part in the discussion.
> 
> Can you share your views on this with the group, specifically regarding
> the question of whether or not the server must -reveal- the equivalency
> relationship in markup to the user and/or user agent, if the 
> equivalency is clearly identified in the data model used by the server?
> 
> (Sample scenario:  I store everything in XML.  My XML tells me that
> the markup "<span class='myheaders'>Kynn's Friends</span>" is equal
> to the image kyfrie004.jpg.  If I send the markup to a user who has
> requested "no images", do I need to identify that it is alternative
> text in some way?)
> 
> -- 
> Kynn Bartlett  <kynn@idyllmtn.com>                    http://kynn.com/
> Director of Accessibility, Edapta               http://www.edapta.com/
> Chief Technologist, Idyll Mountain Internet   http://www.idyllmtn.com/
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>

Received on Thursday, 26 October 2000 01:57:04 UTC