- From: Gregg Vanderheiden <gv@trace.wisc.edu>
- Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 13:44:50 -0600
- To: "'David MacDonald'" <befree@magma.ca>, "'WCAG-WG'" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <002701c6460d$70f680c0$ee8cfea9@NC6000BAK>
Good suggestions. I've made both to the proposal Programmatically determined determined by software from information provided in a standard, open, publicly documented and supported way. * Note: Standard does not necessarily imply a formal standard. A format that is widely accepted and supported would also count as a de facto standard. * Note: Open means that user agents and assisted technologies would not have to pay a royalty in order to extract and present the "programmatically determinable" information to the user. * Note: Publicly documented here means that documents are available in a free and accessible manner to the public, including availability on the Web. * Note: Supported means that sufficient user agents and assisted technologies support the method for extracting and presenting this information. What is deemed as "sufficient" is determined by those setting the technologies to be included in the baseline. One of the factors that should be considered before adding a technology to the baseline would be the availability of sufficient affordable user agents and assisted technologies which support the technology. Gregg -- ------------------------------ Gregg C Vanderheiden Ph.D. Professor - Ind. Engr. & BioMed Engr. Director - Trace R & D Center University of Wisconsin-Madison The Player for my DSS sound file is at http://tinyurl.com/dho6b <http://tinyurl.com/cmfd9> _____ From: David MacDonald [mailto:befree@magma.ca] Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2006 11:41 AM To: 'Gregg Vanderheiden'; 'WCAG-WG' Subject: RE: Proposal - Definition of Programmatically determined I like it. Just a couple of things I would suggest: 1) There is a typo in the first bullet. "an" should be "and". 2) I'm not sure that we should use the word "preferred" in a normative document. It is not very testable. I would propose: <proposed>Note: Publicly documented here means that documents are available in a free and accessible manner to the public, including availability on the Web. </proposed> If they are on the web with their technology, I think there would be no good reason for them not to be on the web with their "free and accessible" documentation. David MacDonald www.eramp.com <http://www.eramp.com/> _____ From: w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Gregg Vanderheiden Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2006 1:51 AM To: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org Subject: Proposal - Definition of Programmatically determined Programmatically determined determined by software from information provided in a standard, open, publicly documented and supported way. * Note: Standard does not necessarily imply a formal standard. A format that is widely accepted an supported would also count as a de facto standard. * Note: Open means that user agents and assisted technologies would not have to pay a royalty in order to extract and present the "programmatically determinable" information to the user. * Note: Publicly documented here means that documents are available in a free and accessible manner to the public. Availability on the Web is preferred. * Note: Supported means that sufficient user agents and assisted technologies support the method for extracting and presenting this information. What is deemed as "sufficient" is determined by those setting the technologies to be included in the baseline. One of the factors that should be considered before adding a technology to the baseline would be the availability of sufficient affordable user agents and assisted technologies which support the technology.
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