- From: John M Slatin <john_slatin@austin.utexas.edu>
- Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:53:30 -0600
- To: <gv@trace.wisc.edu>, "Wendy A Chisholm" <wendy@w3.org>, <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Excellent. Onward! "Good design is accessible design." Please note our new name and URL! John Slatin, Ph.D. Director, Accessibility Institute 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.utexas.edu/research/accessibility/ -----Original Message----- From: w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Gregg Vanderheiden Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 3:09 pm To: 'Wendy A Chisholm'; w3c-wai-gl@w3.org Subject: RE: Edit in Scope section Nice one Wendy. Unless someone has an objection to this -- I think we should try it out and move on for now. If someone sees a problem with it when incorporated - then re-raise it. Please look over the great work done by our two subcommittees so we can get the Plain language and testability work incorporated. Thanks Gregg -- ------------------------------ Gregg C Vanderheiden Ph.D. Professor - Ind. Engr. & BioMed Engr. Director - Trace R & D Center University of Wisconsin-Madison -----Original Message----- From: Wendy A Chisholm [mailto:wendy@w3.org] Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 2:38 PM To: gv@trace.wisc.edu; w3c-wai-gl@w3.org Subject: RE: Edit in Scope section Can we simply say, "These guidelines provide recommendations to developers and managers who wish to make Web content more accessible and usable by people with disabilities." In other words, remove the adjectives and simply say "people with disabilities." Later, we can enumerate the types and combinations of disabilities or leave it to the EOWG documents. --wendy At 07:16 PM 11/5/2003, Gregg Vanderheiden wrote: >I think the objective was to say that the guidelines are meant to apply to >people with all different types of disabilities. This is in contrast to >guidelines that apply to some (different disabilities) but omit others. > > > > different types of disabilities could mean just vision, hearing, and > physical. The ALL was meant to make the goal to include all. > > > >(or at least all that can be addressed by web content design. Lower >back >pain and chemical sensitivity being two that are not in this category). > > > >What we had was clearly bad English. But how to do we do it well to >cover all. > > > > > >Full range is the best Ive seen of the suggestions. Implies not only >types but degrees. > > > >hmmmm > > > > >Gregg > > -- ------------------------------ >Gregg C Vanderheiden Ph.D. >Professor - Ind. Engr. & BioMed Engr. >Director - Trace R & D Center >University of Wisconsin-Madison > >-----Original Message----- >From: w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org] On >Behalf Of Doyle Burnett >Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 2:53 PM >To: Sailesh Panchang; W3C Web Content >Subject: Re: Edit in Scope section > > > >I would agree with Sailesh full range is a confusing phrase as it could >be >implied that a person or persons have the full range of a GIVEN >disability. I feel, usable by people having different kinds of >disabilitiesis the best way to present what I am guessing were trying to say. > >Doyle Burnett > > >Doyle Burnett >Education and Training Specialist >Multiple Disabilities Program >Special Education Service Agency >dburnett@sesa.org >Www.sesa.org >-- > > > >On 11/5/03 11:24 AM, "Sailesh Panchang" <sailesh.panchang@deque.com> >wrote: > >Refer to WCAG 2.0 Scope. A statement reads: >"...and usable by people with a full range of disabilities. " > >Probably what is meant is "usable by people having different kinds >of >disabilities" >Does "people with full range" imply only those those individuals each >of whom have all disabilities imaginable? Probably not. >Sailesh Panchang >Senior Accessibility Engineer >Deque Systems,11180 Sunrise Valley Drive, >4th Floor, Reston VA 20191 >Tel: 703-225-0380 Extension 105 >E-mail: sailesh.panchang@deque.com >Fax: 703-225-0387 >* Look up <http://www.deque.com> * > > > > -- wendy a chisholm world wide web consortium web accessibility initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI/ /--
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