Re: Another Attempt (was: Sentence in COGA Note)

I like it David!

On Tue, May 5, 2020, 4:58 PM Jonathan Avila <jon.avila@levelaccess.com>
wrote:

> While I know we want to be sensitive – we honestly don’t know if it was
> unintentional or not.   One company I can think of has an inaccessible
> pizza ordering app but yet claims there are alternatives such as calling on
> the phone.  I’ve seen sites that purposely removed the keyboard focus
> because they thought it was ugly and annoying to users.
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> Jonathan
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> *From:* John Foliot <john.foliot@deque.com>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, May 5, 2020 4:51 PM
> *To:* David MacDonald <david@can-adapt.com>
> *Cc:* WCAG <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>; lisa.seeman <lisa.seeman@zoho.com>; WCAG
> Editors <team-wcag-editors@w3.org>; David Fazio <dfazio@helixopp.com>
> *Subject:* Another Attempt (was: Sentence in COGA Note)
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> How about instead:
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> ""People with cognitive and learning disabilities may be negatively
> impacted and unintentionally blocked from effectively using some web
> content due to certain design and content choices."
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> JF
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> On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 1:15 PM David MacDonald <david@can-adapt.com>
> wrote:
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> Hi all
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> on the call today there was quite a lively discussion around this sentence.
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> CURRENT
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> "People with cognitive and learning disabilities may not be able to
> effectively use web content because of the design and content choices of
> the author."
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> I've gone back and tried to capture the essence of Lisa's rationale, while
> steering the focus to the design/content and rather than the author. I also
> used John Avila's word "impact" rather than "because".
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> SUGGESTED
> Design and content choices can impact the content in ways that make it
> difficult or impossible for some users with cognitive and learning
> disabilities to use this content.
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> Cheers,
> David MacDonald
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