Re: 9 August 2001 WCAG WG telecon minutes

Anne and Charles,

Are your concerns about this wording strong enough that it needs to be 
resolved before the draft is published to TR (hopefully 17 
August)?  Instead, may I put it on the open issues list to discuss after it 
is published?

Thanks,
--wendy

At 09:57 AM 8/10/01 , Anne Pemberton wrote:
>Charles,
>
>         Do we need "as possible" as a qualifier, or should that be in the 
> techniques as well?
>
>         Oh, I liked the first two of your techniques, but think the one 
> about pronouns belongs in a grammar lesson instead of "techniques" ...
>
>                                                 Anne
>
>At 09:13 AM 8/10/01 -0400, Charles McCathieNevile wrote:
>>I agree that the checkpoint text is still a bit too complex to be understood
>>consistently. I would propose dropping the "appropriate" from the text for
>>now, and including it in the discussion material.
>>
>>In the  sufficiency criteria we should be able to provide some ways of
>>measuring whether something meets the checkpoint.
>>
>>For example (this is a 2-minute exercise and I don't think these are good
>>enough, but they might give an idea what I mean):
>(techniques deleted)
>>etc
>>
>>cheers
>>
>>Charles
>>
>>(I haven't hung up my writing instructor's hat, or my translator's hat, but
>>they are a bit dusty...)
>>
>>
>>On Fri, 10 Aug 2001, Anne Pemberton wrote:
>>
>>   Jo,
>>
>>            You were right to raise the issue on the telecon, but I don't
>>   think the fix worked.  The sentence is an important checkpoint, and if it
>>   has to be "read right", then it hasn't been written "clearly and simply"
>>   yet....
>>
>>            Is it necessary to say "as is possible" as well as "as is
>>   appropriate" ? Can we omit "as is possible" and leave it "Write 
>> clearly and
>>   simply as appropriate for the site."  .... I think someone mentioned "as
>>   possible" leaves a checkpoint open to abuse.
>
>Anne Pemberton
>apembert@erols.com
>
>http://www.erols.com/stevepem
>http://www.geocities.com/apembert45

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wendy a chisholm
world wide web consortium
web accessibility initiative
seattle, wa usa
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