Re: Support as an SC prefix?

Hi John,

Your reading is correct, that’s the intent for those SCs.

That has been the case for a while, the new bit is using this word (support) to indicate that approach.

For the low-vision SCs it is essentially “don’t prevent people from linearising content” etc. which is a somewhat new requirement for WCAG compared to 2.0.

So, assuming there is some supporting explanation elsewhere, does the term “Support” as an SC prefix work for you?

Cheers,

-Alastair


From: John Foliot <john.foliot@deque.com>
Date: Wednesday, 8 March 2017 at 16:26
To: Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>
Cc: Alastair Campbell <acampbell@nomensa.com>, WCAG <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Subject: Re: Support as an SC prefix?

Hi Alistair,

Interesting... we would likely have to detail what "Support" would entail in our Techniques Section, but I like the general idea.

@Laura, as I read this, the author would need to ensure "Support" was authored into the content, rather than provide the actual support. For example, @alt text "supports" a screen reader user, but the author is not required to provide a tool that surfaces that @alt text, only ensure that the conditions are met (i.e. appropriate alt text) when a support tool (aka screen reader) is invoked.

(Alastair, is that a correct understanding of your proposal?)

JF

On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 7:56 AM, Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com<mailto:laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>> wrote:
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<mailto: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
>
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