- From: Andi Snow-Weaver <andisnow@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 15:57:36 -0600
- To: Gez Lemon <gez.lemon@gmail.com>
- Cc: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
Gez, You wrote: A recurring argument against any proposal for a success criterion that is beneficial to people with cognitive problems is that the success criterion may be detrimental to websites that are aimed at professionals. and then later clarified: It was mentioned in the teleconference once yesterday, in one of the surveys [1] four times (1.3 L3 SC2 and 1.3 L3 SC3), and references were made at the face to face meeting; one with regards to error correction slowing down professionals. I'm not sure of the number of times that the same point is made in different contexts towards the same group before it could be considered recurring, but I felt it was appropriate in this case. <end of your comments> I believe those comments about professional users were made with regard to Web applications that are deployed in an enterprise and used by trained professionals. The rationale was that they know their domain and will understand the abbreviations. Part of what we struggle with in trying to reach consensus is that we all have different environments that we represent. The stated working group criteria for having something at Level 1 and 2 is that it should be applicable to all types of Web sites. If someone comes from an environment for which a requirement is largely not applicable, they will naturally argue to keep it at Level 3. Andi andisnow@us.ibm.com IBM Accessibility Center (512) 838-9903, http://www.ibm.com/able Internal Tie Line 678-9903, http://w3.austin.ibm.com/~snsinfo
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