- From: John M Slatin <john_slatin@austin.utexas.edu>
- Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 08:19:09 -0500
- To: <jasonw@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au>, "Web Content Guidelines" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Thanks, Jason (and Gregg)! I'll accept either "at least one of these technologies" or "one or more of these technologies" as a friendly amendment. "One or more" is probably better. But then another question arises: is there some upper limit? If a given user has *none* of the technologies on the list, do we still require that he or she be able to access and use the resource? That, I think, would make a mockery of this criterion (which may be an argument in favor of eliminating it altogether). John John Slatin, Ph.D. Director, Institute for Technology & Learning University of Texas at Austin FAC 248C 1 University Station G9600 Austin, TX 78712 ph 512-495-4288, f 512-495-4524 email jslatin@mail.utexas.edu web http://www.ital.utexas.edu -----Original Message----- From: Jason White [mailto:jasonw@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au] Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 4:24 am To: Web Content Guidelines Subject: Re: Action item: proposed rewording for Checkpoint 4.2, Criterion 1 With thanks to John and Cynthia for completing this action item so expeditiously, my comments appear below. John M Slatin writes: > > 1. The Web resource includes a list of the technologies users must > have in order for its content to work as intended. Users who do not > have some of these technologies can still access and use the resource, > though the experience may be degraded. I agree with Gregg: this is better than the original wording, putting aside the question of whether checkpoint 4.2 should be included in the guidelines at all, which I acknowledge remains an open issue. I assume you intend "some" in the above proposal to mean "at least one". Is this potentially ambiguous? Should it be clarified, for example by saying "at least one of these technologies" or "one or more of these technologies"? Whoever interprets "some" as meaning "more than one" will argue that content for which there is only one such technology, i.e., a technology the non-availability of which does not cause the content to become inoperable, doesn't meet the success criterion.
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