Re: Combine 79, 78, and 74 SCs? (was Re: Mechanism Disclaimer)

Hello everyone,

Does anyone prefer the following text to combine the 3 SCs.

​  "​The presentation of content does not interfere with the user agents
ability to allow the user to change foreground and background colors, font
family​, ​or the spacing between characters, words, lines, or paragraphs​."

Thank you.

Kindest regards,
Laura
On Jan 21, 2017 7:38 AM, "Laura Carlson" <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi David,
>
> Terrific. Thank you so very much!
>
> Can anyone not live with David's text to combine the 3 SCs?
>
> ​   "​The content does not interfere with the user agents ability to allow
> the user to change foreground and background colors, font family​, ​or the
> spacing between characters, words, lines, or paragraphs​.
>
> Thanks again.
>
> Kindest regards,
> Laura
> >But it is not the content itself that is the barrier.
>
> ​WCAG's definition of content includes the way it's laid out.
>
> "content (Web content)
> information and sensory experience to be communicated to the user by means
> of a user agent <https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/#useragentdef>, including
> code or markup that defines the content's structure
> <https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/#structuredef>, *presentation
> <https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/#presentationdef>*, and interactions"​
>
> But if the group would rather be more specific to help the audience better
> understand, I'm fine with "Presentation of content" for the first draft.
>
> >>an SC shouldn't be worded to what a user can or cannot do.
>
> Exactly.
>
> Cheers,
> David MacDonald
>
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> On Sat, Jan 21, 2017 at 4:20 AM, Laura Carlson <
> laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi David,
>>
>> Thank you! Calling out the 3 specific areas is a very good  improvement
>> in the SC text.
>>
>> I think removing "CSS"  to be tech agnostic  is a good move. But it is
>> not the content itself that is the barrier. It is the presentation of the
>> content. Would replacing "Content" with the "Presentation of content" be
>> allowable?
>>
>> Gregg metioned in the mechanism thread that an SC shouldn't be worded to
>> what a user can or cannot do. Does that rule out John's appoach to
>> demarcate user and UA roles?
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> Kindest regards,
>>
>> Laura
>>
>> ​>In my draft re-write, I think there is a clearer demarcation between
>> what the author needs to do (create modify-able CSS styles) and what the
>> end-user needs to do (make personalization choices).​
>>
>> ​I think w​e would need to replace CSS with something more generic, to be
>> technology agnostic, even though we really might mean "CSS".
>> ​ How about this attempt to combine 74, 78, 79.​
>>
>> ​   "​
>> The content does not interfere with the user agents ability to allow the
>> user to change foreground and background colors, font family
>> ​, ​
>> or the spacing between characters, words, lines, or paragraphs
>> ​."​
>>
>> Cheers,
>> David MacDonald
>>
>>
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>> ​>In my draft re-write, I think there is a clearer demarcation between
>> what the author needs to do (create modify-able CSS styles) and what the
>> end-user needs to do (make personalization choices).​
>>
>> ​I think w​
>> e would need to replace CSS with something more generic, to be technology
>> agnostic, even though we really might mean "CSS".
>> ​ How about this attempt to combine 74, 78, 79.​
>>
>>
>> ​   "​
>> The content does not interfere with the user agents ability to allow the
>> user to change foreground and background colors, font family
>> ​, ​
>> or the spacing between characters, words, lines, or paragraphs
>> ​."​
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> David MacDonald
>>
>>
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>> On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 3:43 PM, John Foliot <john.foliot@deque.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Laura,
>>>
>>> Thank you - that appears to be significantly more focused on what the
>>> author should (or shouldn't) be doing, although I'd still like it to focus
>>> more on the roles of both author and user:
>>>
>>> "Document styling using CSS is created in a way that permits *users* to
>>> change presentational styling while not causing loss of content or
>>> functionality. If no mechanism exists to change presentational styling
>>> on any user agent for the target technology, then the *author* has no
>>> responsible to
>>> create one."
>>>
>>>
>>> In my draft re-write, I think there is a clearer demarcation between
>>> what the author needs to do (create modify-able CSS styles) and what the
>>> end-user needs to do (make personalization choices).
>>>
>>> Thoughts?
>>>
>>> JF
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 1:46 PM, Laura Carlson <
>>> laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Alastair, Patrick and all,
>>>>
>>>> Here is an idea.
>>>>
>>>> Alastair wrote:
>>>> > Perhaps it should be something like:
>>>> > "Changing the font-family used to display a web page does not cause
>>>> loss of
>>>> > content or functionality."
>>>>
>>>> Since the aim of issue 79 (font [1]), 78 (spacing [2]), and 74 (text
>>>> color [3]) are so similar in aim why not expand it to cover those too?
>>>> At one point in the Spacing SC issue Patrick suggested [4]:
>>>>
>>>> "...why not generalize the SC so that all sorts of presentational
>>>> attributes (beyond just spacing) can be changed using user styles or
>>>> similar? And the failure examples could then include things like
>>>> !important and style attributes?"
>>>>
>>>> Would something such as the following be too wide?
>>>>
>>>> "Changing presentational styling does not cause loss of content or
>>>> functionality."
>>>>
>>>> And then adjust Wayne's disclaimer:
>>>>
>>>> "If no mechanism exists to change presentational styling on any user
>>>> agent for the target technology, then the author has no responsible to
>>>> create one."
>>>>
>>>> Kindest Regards,
>>>> Laura
>>>>
>>>> [1] https://github.com/w3c/wcag21/issues/79
>>>> [2] https://github.com/w3c/wcag21/issues/78
>>>> [3] https://github.com/w3c/wcag21/issues/74
>>>> [4] https://github.com/w3c/wcag21/issues/78#issuecomment-271164347
>>>>
>>>> On 1/19/17, Alastair Campbell <acampbell@nomensa.com> wrote:
>>>> > Hi Wayne,
>>>> >
>>>> > I'm not so concerned with whether the user can change the
>>>> font-family, as
>>>> > they can.
>>>> >
>>>> > It is what issues *come from* changing the font-family that are the
>>>> problem.
>>>> > I assume it is things like overlap, wrapping that breaks interactive
>>>> > controls, and font-icons disappearing?
>>>> >
>>>> > Perhaps it should be something like:
>>>> > "Changing the font-family used to display a web page does not cause
>>>> loss of
>>>> > content or functionality."
>>>> >
>>>> > Anyway, it's past midnight here, g'night!
>>>> >
>>>> > -Alastair
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Laura L. Carlson
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> John Foliot
>>> Principal Accessibility Strategist
>>> Deque Systems Inc.
>>> john.foliot@deque.com
>>>
>>> Advancing the mission of digital accessibility and inclusion
>>>
>>
>>
>

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