- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 03:18:51 -0400 (EDT)
- To: thatch@us.ibm.com
- cc: w3c-wai-ua@w3.org
This is related to your earlier comments about 6.5 and 6.6. It would seem that there is a problem of defining terms. I believe that the glossary includes the terms view, viewpoint, selection and focus, as used in the document, and that they are not very different if at all from their common usage. The word highlight is not defined as I recall, but it is used in its general sense rather than the slightly more technical and much more specifc sense of reverse video on a computer monitor. Perhaps an up-front list of the words which were defined in the glossary, or linking the first (or perhaps all, for improved accessibility) occurrence to the definition would be a good solution. In answer to your actual question, which could presumably used as part of the techniques discussion of the document, to highlight and identify the current view, selection and focus means to ensure that they are readily distinguished from any other view, or other possible selections or foci, and that what makes them different is a "positive" feature, such as a different colour scheme, larger text, or being louder than other objects, rather than a negative feature, such as being hidden, or quieter. In addition, having these objects identified so that a query through an appropriate API (Application Program Interface) can identify them, is important to dependant technologies in particular. cheers Charles McCN On Tue, 17 Aug 1999 thatch@us.ibm.com wrote: Resent with subject!! I'm now looking at 9.1 which is: Provide a mechanism for highlighting and identifying (through a standard interface where available) the current view, selection, and focus. I don't know what this means either. The techniques link is broken. Searching for 9.1 in the guideline I found: 3.6.6 Frames Checkpoints in this section: 9.1. And 9.1 doesn't seem to talk about frames. What does it mean to highlight and identify the current view, selection or focus? Jim Thatcher IBM Special Needs Systems www.ibm.com/sns thatch@us.ibm.com (512)838-0432 --Charles McCathieNevile mailto:charles@w3.org phone: +1 617 258 0992 http://www.w3.org/People/Charles W3C Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI MIT/LCS - 545 Technology sq., Cambridge MA, 02139, USA
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