RE: Scope of WCAG 2.0 (was: Re: Minor edits to the draft charter)

Doyle flags the following sentence as somewhat problematic:

 "In some cases something that makes Web content more 'usable' by one
person makes it 'accessible' to another." 

I agree that this may be unclear to some readers, and would suggest the
following re-wording:

 "In some cases something that makes Web content more 'usable' by one
person is essential to making it even minimally 'accessible' to
another." 

John


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-----Original Message-----
From: Doyle Burnett [mailto:dburnett@sesa.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 4:21 pm
To: Wendy Chisholm; W3C Web Content
Subject: Re: Scope of WCAG 2.0 (was: Re: Minor edits to the draft
charter)



Wendy and The Group -

Basically, I like what Roberto offers-up as a change to the "Scope" as
presently written.  The sentence, "In some cases something that makes
Web content more 'usable' by one person makes it 'accessible' to
another." seems a bit awkward but I cannot figure out a better written
solution - what about saying -

In most cases (as opposed to - in some cases) a bit more pro-active (but
what do I know).

And, I wish I could word-smith a better word for the "something" in the
same sentence.  

The flavor of what's being said, is GREAT!  Thanks Roberto!  And, I can
live with it the way Roberto has written it, too.


Doyle Burnett
Education and Training Specialist
Multiple Disabilities Program
Special Education Service Agency
dburnett@sesa.org
Www.sesa.org
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On 9/2/03 12:35 PM, "Wendy A Chisholm" <wendy@w3.org> wrote:

> 
> To address Roberto's comment, does anyone disagree with replacing the 
> scope of WCAG 2.0 [1] with: "These guidelines cover a wide range of 
> issues and recommendations for making Web content more accessible. 
> They include recommendations to make pages accessible and usable by 
> people with a full range of disabilities.  In some cases something 
> that makes Web content more 'usable' by one person makes it 
> 'accessible' to another.  The guidelines do not attempt to address all

> usability recommendations, but  instead focus on those aspects of 
> usability that increase accessibility."
> 
> --wendy
> 
> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/#scope
> 
> At 03:03 AM 8/23/2003, you wrote:
> 
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Wendy A Chisholm" <wendy@w3.org>
>> To: <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
>> Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 8:12 PM
>> Subject: Minor edits to the draft charter
>> 
>> 
>>> 4. Scope:  item #1 under scope now reads:
>>>         "Advance WCAG 2.0 further towards a W3C Recommendation, per 
>>> requirements ...."
>> 
>> Hi,
>> we have received from Michele Diodati (www.diodati.org) an italian 
>> expert of accessibility that has done some translations of W3C rec., 
>> the following question:
>> 
>> http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/#scope
>> 
>> "These guidelines cover a wide range of issues and recommendations 
>> for making Web content more accessible. They include recommendations 
>> to make pages accessible and usable by people with a full range of 
>> disabilities. In general, the guidelines do not include standard 
>> usability recommendations except where they have specific 
>> ramifications for accessibility beyond standard usability impacts."
>> 
>> For a non-english speaking (and I think also for english ones) is not

>> clear what means "In general, the guidelines do not include standard 
>> usability recommendations except where they have specific 
>> ramifications for accessibility beyond standard usability impacts." 
>> and must be explained in more "plain language".
>> 
>> If the "scope" is not clear, is it not a good thing :)

Received on Tuesday, 2 September 2003 17:28:48 UTC