RE: Is the word Short measurable

Yeah, war films on the net would probably have to rely captions to reach
hard of hearing people WCAG, unless they get the voices well up above all
the killing. Hey maybe I'll write a song about that. "Voices above the war"
:-) 

 

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David MacDonald

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From: Gregg Vanderheiden [mailto:gv@trace.wisc.edu] 
Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 4:22 PM
To: 'David MacDonald'; w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
Subject: RE: Is the word Short measurable

 

Better

But I think this would still eliminate all war films. 

It is level 3 but. 

 

I wonder if we can figure a way to get what we want without catching so much
else that it would be ok to leave out. 

 

 
Gregg

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Gregg C Vanderheiden Ph.D. 
Professor - Ind. Engr. & BioMed Engr.
Director - Trace R & D Center 
University of Wisconsin-Madison 

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From: w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org] On Behalf
Of David MacDonald
Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 12:10 PM
To: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
Subject: RE: Is the word Short measurable

 

I propose we rewrite:

 

Level 3 Success Criteria for Guideline 1.5 
 
<current>
1.      Audio content does not contain background sounds OR the background
sounds are at least 20 decibels lower than the foreground audio content with
the exception of occasional short sounds. [V] </current>
 
<proposed>
1.      Audio content does not contain background sounds OR the background
sounds are at least 20 decibels lower than the foreground audio content with
the exception of occasional short sounds. (where "short" may be defined as
less that 10 seconds and "occasional" may be defined as occurring more
frequently than once every 10 minutes.) [V] </proposed>
 
 
 
In an attempt to make our guidelines testable, I chose 10 seconds as the as
the threshold for the word "short" to allow for what the movie industry
would describe as an airplane passing overhead or a bomb exploding. I chose
10 minutes as the threshold for "occasional" because I think any more
frequency than that would be quite distracting and difficult to follow for a
person who is hard of hearing. 

 

David MacDonald

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