- From: Christophe Strobbe <christophe.strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be>
- Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 17:17:11 +0100
- To: <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
At 19:54 22/02/2006, David MacDonald wrote: <blockquote> Do we need to say "Government entities", why not just "Government". It's awkward to and redundant to have the second occurrence of "entities", I suggest. </blockquote> Government (especially when written with uppercase G) usually refers to the government of a state, but local governments can also set baselines. Does "government bodies" sound better? How about just "governments"? <proposal> Note 4: Examples of entities that may set baselines that an author has to follow include the author, a company, a customer and governments. </proposal> This makes it more obvious that we have three singular forms followed by a plural form. We won't get high grades for writing style. Regards, Christophe >-----Original Message----- >From: w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org] On Behalf >Of Christophe Strobbe >Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 7:45 AM >To: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org >Subject: RE: Definition of baseline > > > >Davic MacDonald wrote: ><blockquote> ><Gregg's_propsal> > >>>NOTE 4: Some examples of entities that may set baselines that an author >may have to follow include the author, a company, a customer and government >entities. ></Gregg's_propsal> > >I don't think the author should be included as an entity that the author >may have to follow. I would break this out to a separate sentence. I don't >think the second occurrence of "entities" is necessary. So, I would say: > ><amended_proposal> > >>NOTE 4: Some examples of entities that may set baselines that an author >may have to follow include a company, a customer and government. In some >situations the author may set the baseline. ></amended_proposal> ></blockquote> > >At 16:35 22/02/2006, Gregg Vanderheiden responded: ><blockquote> >(...)But the author is in fact one person who may (have to) set a baseline. >They would then have to go by it when creating pages. If no one else sets >one, they can't conform without setting one - could they? ></blockquote> > >I agree. If no baseline is set by a government, company or customer, the >developer has to define it. He has to turn the baseline implied by his >choice of technologies into an explicit statement. > >I also think that note 4 can drop the word "some" (implied by "include") >and the second "may" (following the baseline is not meant to be optional). >So it would become: ><proposal> >Note 4: Examples of entities that may set baselines that an author has to >follow include the author, a company, a customer and government entities. ></proposal> > >Regards, > >Christophe Strobbe -- Christophe Strobbe K.U.Leuven - Departement of Electrical Engineering - Research Group on Document Architectures Kasteelpark Arenberg 10 - 3001 Leuven-Heverlee - BELGIUM tel: +32 16 32 85 51 http://www.docarch.be/ Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm
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