- From: Gregg Vanderheiden <gv@trace.wisc.edu>
- Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 09:30:26 -0500
- To: "'John M Slatin'" <john_slatin@austin.utexas.edu>, "'Jason White'" <jasonw@ariel.its.unimelb.edu.au>
- Cc: <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
I think that a normative doc can only have one view. At least in its normative mode. EO could make up other views but I think the concern is that someone could look at a doc and not see all of it.. but take what they see as normative. Again, we'll know more when Wendy gets the answers back. Gregg -- ------------------------------ Gregg C Vanderheiden Ph.D. Professor - Ind. Engr. & BioMed Engr. Director - Trace R & D Center University of Wisconsin-Madison -----Original Message----- From: John M Slatin [mailto:john_slatin@austin.utexas.edu] Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 8:47 AM To: Gregg Vanderheiden; Jason White Cc: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org Subject: RE: Searching guidelines and techniques Responding to my query about adding a search feature to WCAG 2, Gregg wrote: <blockquote> Only the guidelines are normative so that may be the only doc that we have restrictions on. I think Wendy is checking this out in more detail. </blockquote> John: Is it the *content* of the Guidelines document that's normative, or is there also a normative *view* of that content that's also the only permitted view? Would it be consistent with our own principles to permit only a single view of the content? 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 Jason White Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 11:40 PM To: John M Slatin Cc: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org Subject: Re: Searching guidelines and techniques On Tue, 3 Aug 2004, John M Slatin wrote: > It occurs to me that it might be useful to provide a search engine > that would help people locate relevant information in the set of WCAG > 2.0 documents (Guidelines, Gateway, Techniques, Checklists). This > would be another navigation aid, in addition to multiple views (e.g., > by developer task, by content-type, by technology, by guideline, > etc.). I think this is essentially the same as dynamically generated multiple views, where a document is generated based on the user's selection and sorting requirements instead of having a small number of pre-existing versions of the documentation. I don't know how this would work given W3C publishing rules and practices but I can fully appreciate the attractiveness of the idea (from a user's perspective, not from that of whoever would have to implement the script to carry it out).
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