Re: summary of new issues from this week's list discussions

aloha, wendy!

first of all, i have to say that the WCAG2 issues list is a thing of
beauty...  and then quickly add that that opening line was not a setup for
the rest of this emessage!

my proposal, as amended in response to gregg's request for conflation, and
which i, too, vastly prefer to my first iteration, is:

<PROPOSED>
Using appropriate markup, define the natural language of each
document, indicating any changes.
</PROPOSED>

the reference is:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-gl/2001AprJun/0499.html

i also find anne's terse restatement of my proposal,

<ANNE>
Identify the natural language of each document and mark up any changes.
</ANNE>

found at:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-gl/2001AprJun/0522.html

quite intriguing, although i think the "using appropriate markup" bit is
extremely important, so that, for example, people don't use JavaScript cued
to OnMouseOver to provide an implementation-specific simulation of what can
be done in an accessible/interoperable manner using Ruby... i'm still not
sure whether we should say just say "document and/or document fragment", but
then, wouldn't fragments pulled into a document already be covered by the
marking up any changes bit?

gregory.

PS: general info about Ruby Annotation activity at the W3C can be found at:
  http://www.w3.org/International/O-HTML-ruby
Ruby Annotation became a W3C Technical Recommendation on 6 April 2001; the
TR can be found at:
  http://www.w3.org/TR/ruby

Received on Wednesday, 23 May 2001 04:38:43 UTC