- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 17:50:54 -0500 (EST)
- To: "Charles F. Munat" <chas@munat.com>
- cc: WAI IG <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Chas, thanks for the comments. My responses inline... On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Charles F. Munat wrote: Charles McCathieNevile wrote: > The first version is at http://www.soundingboard.co.nz/waifaq.nsf/ > and represents a draft at answering some questions. > > enjoy (and please be gentle and helpful in criticism <grin/>) At first glance, it looks good (and it is sorely needed). Some ideas: 1. Questions should be grouped by subject. For example, all questions about the alt attribute should be grouped together. One possible organization for the FAQ might be by checkpoint. An even better idea is to permit the user to select different ways of organizing the questions/answers. Yes, how to organise the questions is an interesting topic in itself. I am hoping to get some people who are really good at that (my Mother happens to be one of them...) to help, but general comments about how people would organise it in their own library are appreciated. By checkpoint is certainly one approach that should be supported. SSee also question 4... 2. It would be nice if we were careful to use correct terminology. For example, I ran across a couple of references to "alt tags." Here is an opportunity to correct those misaprehensions. Agree 3. In some instances there may be significant dissent wrt a particular answer. It should be possible to append a dissenting view (or a link to one). Well, we are not sure exactly what to do with dissenting views. Maybe we should point to them via links - for example to discussions. It is always possible to use annotea services to note them... 4. While the author for a specific question is of interest, I'd rather it wasn't quite so prominent (is this temporary?). These answers should reflect general consensus on the list (no doubt one that doesn't will be quickly pointed out). Making the author's name so prominent gives the impression that these are personal opinions rather than the views of the majority. well at the moment they basicallly are the author's personal opinion <grin/>. Seriously, I agree, but I think that initially while this contains some things that the 4 of us are not sure about I think it is helpful to know who to blame for a particular answer. However while we would like it to end up much less prominent, it is good to know who proposed a specific suggestion... Thanks, helpful comments. chaals
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