- From: Al Gilman <asgilman@iamdigex.net>
- Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 21:23:47 -0400
- To: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-edapta@idyllmtn.com>, Loretta Guarino Reid <lguarino@Adobe.com>
- Cc: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
At 08:24 PM 2001-08-16 , Kynn Bartlett wrote: >My ears are burning! > > From today's meeting minutes (sorry I couldn't make it): >>3.3 "Simplest and clearest..." - we've discussed this so much already, we don't >>plan to change it again before we post. >>CS: Joe Clark's last suggestion is an improvement. >>GV:New version: "Write as clearly and simply as is appropriate for the >>site's content." (any objections to removing "possible and") >>CS: Run it by Kynn > >Remove reference to "site's content", consider just ending at "is AG:: remove "site's" leave "content" >appropriate." Alternate suggestion: "...for the site's audiences, >known and anticipated." > AG:: Known and anticipated is too small. See reply to Anne re 'purpose' not good to substitute for 'content.' <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-gl/2001JulSep/0536.html>http: //lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-gl/2001JulSep/0536.html Need a profile of approaches that address needs of some unaided and work with aids to extend the audience yet further. Expectations about audience are used in profiling what techniques you apply where in the content, not in setting goals. Even for those who can cope with pedantry, clear and simple writing is better. please refer to my immediate previous reply to Paul <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-gl/2001JulSep/0549.html>http: //lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-gl/2001JulSep/0549.html And the long one on word use. We are struggling to make things concrete at two broad a point in the tree. We should have separate and specific success criteria for a) setting expectations about audience b) managing word-imposed challenges c) managing language-structure-imposed challenges. There's no point straining at trying to make frogs fly. This ain't a checkpoint, it's a placeholder for future development of a system of checkpoints. Al >That last suggestion may kick up some thinking, so have at it. > >--Kynn > >-- >Kynn Bartlett <kynn@reef.com> >Technical Developer Liaison >Reef North America >Accessibility - W3C - Integrator Network >Tel +1 949-567-7006 >________________________________________ >BUSINESS IS DYNAMIC. TAKE CONTROL. >________________________________________ ><http://www.reef.com/>http://www.reef.com >
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