- From: Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:08:59 -0400
- To: David Poehlman <poehlman@clark.net>
- CC: WAI User Agent Working Group <w3c-wai-ua@w3.org>
David Poehlman wrote: > > I've attached a document containing comments and commented portions of > the aug 9 draft <text version> of the ua guidelines for archiving and > review. Hi David, Thank you for the very useful comments. I'm taking into account almost all of the editorial suggestions. For the comments about content, my replies below preceded by IJ. Your comments are preceded by *dp*. Question 1) 5.3 Allow the user to turn on and off rendering of video. [Priority 1] Techniques for checkpoint 5.3 *dp* <question> what is the justification for this? IJ: I believe that the idea here is that video may be distracting and that some users may want to turn it off. There may also be bandwidth issues and one would want to turn off video in order to get, say audio or captions more rapidly. Question 2) 5.11 Allow the user to turn on and off support for spawned windows. [Priority 1] *dp* <question> What happens if a window is not spawned and that action predicates something that must be done by the user such as filling a form? IJ: I agree that could be a problem, but the same might be said for scripts that are turned off but that perform some vital function. Authors shouldn't write pages that way. I've just written a proposal to delete this checkpoint in any case since I believe it's intention is covered by a later checkpoint. Refer to [1] [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ua/1999JulSep/0185.html Question 3) 5.12 Allow the user to turn on and off rendering of frames. [Priority 2] *dp* <question> similar to above? IJ: Refer to issue 76 [2] [2] http://cmos-eng.rehab.uiuc.edu/ua-issues/issues-linear.html#76 Question 4) 5.13 Allow the user to turn on and off author-specified page forwards that occur after a time delay and without user intervention. [Priority 3] For example, when turned off, offer a static link to the target resource instead. *dp* <question> is this not a wcad issue with regard to what is rendered or can the ua make this call? IJ: I believe that it's a UA issue. Question 5) 10.3 Allow the user to configure the user agent for notification of certain types of document changes only. [Priority 3] *dp* <Lang> This is unsettling to me. I feel it should be differently put because it doesn't convey exactly what is meant or what I percieve it to mean. I'd like this to allow me to have the opportunity to pick one or several from a list of things I want to be notified about? It has something to do with the word only. IJ: I see your point. What about something like this: Allow the user to configure the user agent for notification of specific types of changes from a predefined set. Thanks again David, _ Ian -- Ian Jacobs (jacobs@w3.org) http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs Tel/Fax: +1 212 684-1814
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