- From: Gregg Charles Vanderheiden <greggvan@umd.edu>
- Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2023 23:08:39 -0700
- To: GLWAI Guidelines WG org <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
- Message-Id: <83CB62D5-9133-42C2-9592-3E6CF24E0058@umd.edu>
I am sending my comments to question 1 to the list in this email right after I submit
this questionaire because this questionaire keeps throwing much of it away
when I submit. (Too long?)
gregg
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Gregg C Vanderheiden
greggvan@umd.edu
most of these are GREAT. Thanks much.
a few that might have sneaked through or could use a touch up
change understanding/20/captions-live.html text
<dt>Goal</dt><dd>Live videos have captions.</dd>
FROM <dt>Why it's important</dt><dd>People who are deaf or hard of hearing can understand real-time video content.</dd>
TO <dt>Why it's important</dt><dd>People who are deaf or hard of hearing can understand real-time audio in video content.</dd>
understanding/20/change-on-request.html
<dt>Goal</dt><dd>Users have full control of major content changes.</dd>
<dt>What to do</dt><dd>Provide ways for users to trigger or turn off changes of context.</dd>
CHANGE: <dt>Why it's important</dt><dd>Content that behaves predictably is especially important to people with disabilities.</dd>
TO: <dt>Why it's important</dt><dd>Content that behaves predictably is especially important to people with disabilities as is ability to keep content from changing while they are trying to view it.</dd>
understanding/20/keyboard-no-exception.html
<dt>Goal</dt><dd>Everything can be done with a keyboard.</dd>
<dt>What to do</dt><dd>Ensure all pointer actions have a keyboard equivalent.</dd>
CHANGE: <dt>Why it's important</dt><dd>People who can only use the keyboard need to be able to accomplish everything.</dd>
TO: <dt>Why it's important</dt><dd>People who can only use the keyboard or keyboard alternatives (speech, Morse code, scanning, etc.) need to be able to accomplish everything from the keyboard interface.</dd>
understanding/20/keyboard.html
<dt>Goal</dt><dd>Everything can be done with a keyboard except freehand movements.</dd>
<dt>What to do</dt><dd>Ensure pointer actions have a keyboard equivalent.</dd>
CHANGE: <dt>Why it's important</dt><dd>Many people rely on the keyboard or keyboard alternatives (speech, Morse code, scanning, etc.) , including blind and some mobility impaired people and need to be able to accomplish everything from the keyboard interface.</dd>
understanding/20/language-of-page.html <---- WHOLE PAGE
AND ALSO FOR
understanding/20/language-of-parts.html <---- PARTS OF PAGE
<dt>Goal</dt><dd>Assistive technology can determine the language of a page.</dd>
<dt>What to do</dt><dd>Indicate the predominant language on a page.</dd>
CHANGE: <dt>Why it's important</dt><dd>People using assistive technology get information in the correct language.</dd>
TO: <dt>Why it's important</dt><dd>People using assistive technology get information in the correct language and synthesizers will pronounce text properly.</dd>
understanding/20/low-or-no-background-audio.html
<dt>Goal</dt><dd>Prerecorded speech is not disrupted by background sound.</dd>
<dt>What to do</dt><dd>Avoid or lessen background sound, or let users turn it off.</dd>
CHANGE: <dt>Why it's important</dt><dd>People who are hard of hearing may have difficulty distinguishing speech from music and other sounds.</dd>
TO: <dt>Why it's important</dt><dd>People who are hard of hearing may have difficulty understanding what is said when there is music and other sounds in background unless much quieter than speech.</dd>
understanding/20/non-text-content.html
<dt>Goal</dt><dd>Non-text information is available to more people.</dd>
<dt>What to do</dt><dd>Create a text alternative for visual and auditory content.</dd>
CHANGE: <dt>Why it's important</dt><dd>People who can’t fully see or hear content can understand it.</dd>
TO: <dt>Why it's important</dt><dd>So assistive technologies (which can only understand text) can present the information in speech, braille, simplified language or other form that some users need.</dd>
understanding/20/captions-live.html
<dt>Goal</dt><dd>Live videos have captions.</dd>
<dt>What to do</dt><dd>Provide synchronized text for audio content in real-time videos.</dd>
CHANGE: <dt>Why it's important</dt><dd>People who are deaf or hard of hearing can understand real-time video content.</dd>
TO: <dt>Why it's important</dt><dd>People who are deaf or hard of hearing can understand real-time audio content in videos.</dd>
understanding/20/change-on-request.html
<dt>Goal</dt><dd>Users have full control of major content changes.</dd>
<dt>What to do</dt><dd>Provide ways for users to trigger or turn off changes of context.</dd>
CHANGE: <dt>Why it's important</dt><dd>Content that behaves predictably is especially important to people with disabilities.</dd>
TO : <dt>Why it's important</dt><dd>Content that behaves predictably is especially important to people with disabilities and content that changes above their point of reading while it is being read is difficult for some people, and completely missed by others with low vision or using a screen reader.</dd>
{This one is correct but not very informative -- and "important to people with disabilities" could apply to any SC.}
understanding/20/consistent-identification.html
<dt>Goal</dt><dd>Actions are more predictable across pages.</dd>
<dt>What to do</dt><dd>Identify repeating functions consistently.</dd>
CHANGE: <dt>Why it's important</dt><dd>Actions that are identified consistently are especially important to people with disabilities.</dd>
TO : <dt>Why it's important</dt><dd> It is important that things that do the same thing are labeled the same to avoid confusion and to help users predict what will happen when activated. </dd>
{or talk to cognitive group for best text}
understanding/20/consistent-navigation.html
<dt>Goal</dt><dd>Content can be navigated more predictably.</dd>
<dt>What to do</dt><dd>Consistently order navigation that repeats across multiple pages.</dd>
CHANGE: <><dt>Why it's important</dt><dd>Content that behaves predictably is especially important to people with disabilities.</dd>
TO : <><dt>Why it's important</dt><dd>it is much easier to understand how to navigate when there are consistent methods for doing so. Having different ways to do the same thing is confusing and makes it hard to predict or understand what will happen.</dd>
understanding/20/keyboard-no-exception.html
<dt>Goal</dt><dd>Everything can be done with a keyboard.</dd>
<dt>What to do</dt><dd>Ensure all pointer actions have a keyboard equivalent.</dd>
CHANGE: <> <dt>Why it's important</dt><dd>People who can only use the keyboard need to be able to accomplish everything.</dd>
TO : <> <dt>Why it's important</dt><dd>People who can only use the keyboard (or alternate keyboard such as Morse Code, or Scanning, Voice, etc.) need to be able to accomplish everything from a keyboard or keyboard interface.</dd>
understanding/20/keyboard.html <https://github.com/w3c/wcag/pull/3356/files?diff=split&w=0#diff-1f22faa30d347c681c712f821cfd2b18967c85375d93ba81770d3c46b65fce3a>
<dt>Goal</dt><dd>Everything can be done with a keyboard except freehand movements.</dd>
<dt>What to do</dt><dd>Ensure pointer actions have a keyboard equivalent.</dd>
CHANGE: <dt>Why it's important</dt><dd>Many people rely on the keyboard, including blind and some mobility impaired people.</dd> <>
TO : <dt>Why it's important</dt><dd>Many people rely on the keyboard (or alternate keyboards e.g. Morse code or Scanning or voice), including blind and some mobility impaired people.</dd>
understanding/20/language-of-page.html
<dt>Goal</dt><dd>Assistive technology can determine the language of a page.</dd>
<dt>What to do</dt><dd>Indicate the predominant language on a page.</dd>
CHANGE: <dt>Why it's important</dt><dd>People using assistive technology get information in the correct language.</dd> <>
TO: <dt>Why it's important</dt><dd>People using assistive technology get information in the correct language and the correct speech synthesizer is used for voicing it.</dd>
understanding/20/language-of-parts.html <https://github.com/w3c/wcag/pull/3356/files?diff=split&w=0#diff-150441ec7d82458335b28fcce2d0e27d80fe50134d133ea98911d5dac9d1f490>
<dt>Goal</dt><dd>Assistive technology can identify the languages used within a page.</dd>
<dt>What to do</dt><dd>Indicate when words are in a different language.</dd>
CHANGE: <dt>Why it's important</dt><dd>People using assistive technology get information in the correct language.</dd> <>
TO: <dt>Why it's important</dt><dd>People using assistive technology get information in the correct language, and speech synthesizers read the text with the right synthesizer and cognitive aids know what language the text is in.</dd>
understanding/20/low-or-no-background-audio.html
<dt>Goal</dt><dd>Prerecorded speech is not disrupted by background sound.</dd>
<dt>What to do</dt><dd>Avoid or lessen background sound, or let users turn it off.</dd>
CHANGE: <><dt>Why it's important</dt><dd>People who are hard of hearing may have difficulty distinguishing speech from music and other sounds.</dd>
TO: <> <dt>Why it's important</dt><dd>People who are hard of hearing may have understanding speech when there is music or other background sounds that are not much quieter.</dd>
understanding/20/non-text-content.html <https://github.com/w3c/wcag/pull/3356/files?diff=split&w=0#diff-0f046e77243a695652c2510d1fc82eed43750e1493b7c00c0a05aedf6302b66e>
<dt>Goal</dt><dd>Non-text information is available to more people.</dd>
<dt>What to do</dt><dd>Create a text alternative for visual and auditory content.</dd>
CHANGE: <dt>Why it's important</dt><dd>People who can’t fully see or hear content can understand it.</dd> <>
TO: <dt>Why it's important</dt><dd>So non-text content is available in text where it can be converted and presented to users in a form they can understand (e.g. braille, speech, morse code, simpler language) </dd>
understanding/20/pause-stop-hide.html
<https://github.com/w3c/wcag/pull/3356/files?diff=split&w=0#diff-7b72d42aa890f76443752d7d8ce6fa3b37af4e86bd6192eb66442827cd3e6946>
<dt>Goal</dt><dd>Fewer users are distracted by content that updates or moves.</dd>
<dt>What to do</dt><dd>Let users control content changes that occur in parallel with other content.</dd>
<dt>Why it's important</dt><dd>Some people with cognitive disabilities and attention deficits cannot concentrate with continual movement.</dd>
ADD: It is also hard to hear screen readers if there is other audio playing at the same time.
understanding/20/sign-language-prerecorded.html
<https://github.com/w3c/wcag/pull/3356/files?diff=split&w=0#diff-8d9a36f30db9a930fbfa30c7675cf1914badaafa7680d7c573dff341d94a6553>
<dt>Goal</dt><dd>Videos can be accompanied by sign language.</dd>
<dt>What to do</dt><dd>Provide sign language interpretation for audio content in existing videos.</dd>
CHANGE: <dt>Why it's important</dt><dd>People who are deaf or hard of hearing have more ways to understand multimedia content.</dd> <>
TO: <dt>Why it's important</dt><dd>People who are deaf or otherwise only communicate in sign language – cannot understand content (or cannot understand it at playback speed) if it is only in captions.</dd>
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