- From: Gregg Vanderheiden <gv@trace.wisc.edu>
- Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 11:48:17 -0600
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Actually the interactivity as a medium came from Wikipedia. I thought that was interesting because it is necessary as a media for our definition as well. Interactive audio for example is considered multimedia. And it consists of audio and interaction. This would have to be captioned since there would be no other way for a deaf person to know "when" they had to do something if it was just a transcript. Gregg -- ------------------------------ Gregg C Vanderheiden Ph.D. Professor - Ind. Engr. & BioMed Engr. Director - Trace R & D Center University of Wisconsin-Madison _____ From: w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of John M Slatin Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 11:40 AM To: Gregg Vanderheiden; Loretta Guarino Reid; w3c-wai-gl@w3.org Subject: RE: multimedia definition Gregg proposed the following definition for multimedia: <blockquote> Several different media, including at least one time based media, synchronized to convey information. Media may include text, audio, graphics, animation, video, and interactivity. </blockquote> Hmmm. I don't think of interactivity as a medium in its own right. I think of interactivity as an aspect of the way content is used, but the content itself might be text, or graphics, or audio or video. Also, the purpose of synchronizing the media may not be "to convey information" but to provide entertainment. Maybe the definition doesn't need to say anything about the *purpose* of synchronizing the media. Would the following rewrite work? <proposed> Several different media, including at least one time based media type, integrated in a single presentation. Media may include text, audio, graphics, animation, and video. Multimedia may be interactive. </proposed> John "Good design is accessible design." Dr. John M. Slatin, Director Accessibility Institute University of Texas at Austin FAC 248C 1 University Station G9600 Austin, TX 78712 ph 512-495-4288, fax 512-495-4524 email jslatin@mail.utexas.edu Web <http://www.ital.utexas.edu/> http://www.utexas.edu <http://www.utexas.edu/research/accessibility> /research/accessibility -----Original Message----- From: w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Gregg Vanderheiden Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 6:21 PM To: 'Loretta Guarino Reid'; w3c-wai-gl@w3.org Subject: RE: multimedia definition Ah yes. Good point. How about Multimedia Several different media <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medium> , including at least one time based media, synchronized to convey information. Media may include text, audio, graphics, animation, video, and interactivity. Gregg -- ------------------------------ Gregg C Vanderheiden Ph.D. Professor - Ind. Engr. & BioMed Engr. Director - Trace R & D Center University of Wisconsin-Madison _____ From: Loretta Guarino Reid [mailto:lguarino@adobe.com] Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 4:58 PM To: Gregg Vanderheiden; w3c-wai-gl@w3.org Subject: RE: multimedia definition But we don't consider a combination just of text and graphics to be multimedia. Loretta Guarino Reid lguarino@adobe.com Adobe Systems, Acrobat Engineering _____ From: w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Gregg Vanderheiden Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 1:59 PM To: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org Subject: multimedia definition Multimedia is the use of several different media <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medium> to convey information (text <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text> , audio <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio> , graphics <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image> , animation <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animation> , video <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video> , and interactivity <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactivity> ). Gregg ------------------------ Gregg C Vanderheiden Ph.D. Professor - Depts of Ind. Engr. & BioMed Engr. Director - Trace R & D Center University of Wisconsin-Madison < <http://trace.wisc.edu/> http://trace.wisc.edu/> FAX 608/262-8848 For a list of our list discussions http://trace.wisc.edu/lists/ <http://trace.wisc.edu:8080/mailman/listinfo/>
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