RE: Real-time events

Hi Gregg and others,
 
I don't like "events that are live" as a definition of "real-time events". I
associate "live" with performances, not with events like auctions, games,
etc.
 
"Live" has multiple definitions in dictionary.com, including the following
which relate to your use of the word:

*	Broadcast while actually being performed; not taped, filmed, or
recorded: a live television program. 
*	Involving performers or spectators who are physically present: live
entertainment; a live audience. 

 
Neither of them are what we mean for real-time events. Real-time events
don't necessarily involve broadcasting or performers or spectators who are
physically present. 
 
Dictionary.com has the following definition of real-time:  "Of or relating
to the actual time during which something occurs; that is, current as
opposed to delayed."  That seems closer to what we want so perhaps that can
be some inspiration for the definition of real-time events. I can't think of
a way to make it work so I have no suggestion.
Yvette Hoitink
Heritas, Alphen aan den Rijn, the Netherlands
E-mail: y.p.hoitink@heritas.nl
WWW:  <http://www.heritas.nl/> http://www.heritas.nl 

 
 
 
 




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From: w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org] On Behalf
Of Gregg Vanderheiden
Sent: vrijdag 24 februari 2006 5:25
To: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
Subject: Real-time events




I had an action item to see if our new definition for Real-time would work.

 

Here are the places we use the term  (the first one is actually not a use of
real-time events)

 

1.2.3 Real-time
<http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WCAG20/appendixA.html#captionsdef> captions are
provided for live
<http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WCAG20/appendixA.html#multimediadef> multimedia. [
<http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WCAG20/WD-UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20-20060117/Overview.h
tml#media-equiv-real-time-captions> How to meet 1.2.3]

 

2.2.1 For each time-out that is a function of the content, at least one of
the following is true: [
<http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WCAG20/WD-UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20-20060117/Overview.h
tml#time-limits-required-behaviors> How to meet 2.2.1] 

.         the user is allowed to deactivate the time-out or; 

.         the user is allowed to adjust the time-out over a wide range which
is at least ten times the length of the default setting or;

.         the user is warned before time expires and given at least 20
seconds to extend the time-out with a simple action (for example, "hit any
key") and the user is allowed to extend the timeout at least 10 times or;

.         the time-out is an important part of a real-time event (for
example, an auction), and no alternative to the time-out is possible or;

.         the time-out is part of an
<http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WCAG20/appendixA.html#activity-timingdef> activity
where timing is essential (for example, competitive gaming or time-based
testing) and time limits can not be extended further without invalidating
the activity.

 

2.2.4 Except for real-time
<http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WCAG20/appendixA.html#real-time-eventsdef> events,
timing is not an essential part of the event or activity presented by the
content. [
<http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WCAG20/WD-UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20-20060117/Overview.h
tml#time-limits-no-exceptions> How to meet 2.2.4]

 

 

The new definition is

 

real-time events

events that are live 

 

 

Interesting.  Should we just plug in "live events"?    (or would we need to
define that)

 

 


Gregg

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