- From: Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2017 07:56:00 -0600
- To: Alastair Campbell <acampbell@nomensa.com>
- Cc: WCAG <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Hi Alastair and all, Interesting idea regarding having a prefix or some other indicator that a widget is not required. It would be great to alleviate that misconception. But I'm not sure if "support" is the right word. Why wouldn't an on-screen widget be considered support? Kindest Regards, Laura On 3/8/17, Alastair Campbell <acampbell@nomensa.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > There is an interesting point raised on github for the SCs which are aimed > at authors enabling something without (necessarily) adding on-screen > widgets: > https://github.com/w3c/wcag21/issues/159#issuecomment-285020097 > > “Maybe the use of the "Support" prefix would be a useful standard to set for > the SC titles if an on-screen widget is not required, so that in this case > it would be "Support Reflow to Single Column", just as we have "Support > Personalization". > This would also suggest a rename of 1.4.13 to "Support Printing", for > example.” > > It would be an alternative to the “mechanism is available” language, > hopefully leading people away from assuming there would be on-screen > widgets. > > If that were taking on, I think it would lead to: > > · Support linearization (Or ‘Support reflow to single column’) > > · Support printing (Or ‘Support adaptations when printing’ might be > more accurate.) > > · Support adapting text > > · Support extra symbols. > > And possibly others from COGA that didn’t make it to the FPWD. > > So two questions: > > 1. Do you think this approach is helpful? And if so, > > 2. Is “support” the right prefix? > > Kind regards, > > -Alastair > > -- > > www.nomensa.com<http://www.nomensa.com/> > tel: +44 (0)117 929 7333 / 07970 879 653 > follow us: @we_are_nomensa or me: @alastc > Nomensa Ltd. King William House, 13 Queen Square, Bristol BS1 4NT > > Company number: 4214477 | UK VAT registration: GB 771727411 > -- Laura L. Carlson
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