- From: Thierry MICHEL <tmichel@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 17:07:10 +0100
- To: w3c-wai-ua@w3.org
Here are User Agent Guidelines Comments from the SYMM WG, from Geoff Freed/NCAM Maybe more to come. ---------------------- 1. From "Introduction: Orient the User": "Graphical clues about browsing context such as frames, proportional scroll bars, a visually highlighted selection, etc. help some, but not all users, so the context information must be available in a device-independent manner." GF: "Device-dependent" manner is unclear to me. Perhaps just say that this additional information should be selectable by the user? Same section: "Element context. For instance, users with blindness who navigate by surfing only the links of a page or presentation..." GF: Replace "surfing" with "jumping through the links..." or "listening only to the links..." 2. Checkpoint 1.4: GF: No mention of being able to access all menu items via the keyboard or a non-pointing device? 3. Guideline 2: "Ensure that users have access to all content, notably author-supplied alternative equivalents for content (descriptions of images, closed captions for video or audio, etc.)" GF: add "descriptions of images OR MULTIMEDIA, closed captions..." same guideline: What is "text directionality"? 4. Checkpoint 2.2: "...(e.g., in different languages, different levels of detail, etc.)" GF: add "different reading levels" 5. Checkpoint 2.7: "When no text equivalent has been specified, indicate what type of object is present." GF: "Specified" is unclear. Perhaps this should be "When no text equivalent has been SUPPLIED..." 6. Checkpoint 3.10: "Allow the user to turn on and off automatic content refresh. [Priority 3] For example, when turned off, allow the user to refresh content manually instead (through the user interface)." GF: The user should receive some sort of notification that the content actually *needs* refreshing. 7. Checkpoint 4.9: "Allow the user to control the position of audio closed captions." GF: Delete "audio". (Captions are captions; there's no need to distinguish between "audio" or otherwise.) 8. Checkpoint 4.10: "Allow the user to start, stop, pause, and rewind video." GF: Add "fast forward". 9. Checkpoint 4.13: "Allow the user to start, stop, pause, and rewind audio." GF: Add "fast forward". Also, there's no mention of closed captions in the audio section. Captions are necessary for audio-only clips, too, not just for video clips. 10. Guideline 8: "Provide information about resource structure, viewport structure, element summaries, etc. that will assist the user understand their browsing context." GF: Small typo-- it should be "...that will assist the user's understanding of their browsing context.", or something similar. 11. Checkpoint 8.5: "...the length of an audio or video clip that will be started..." GF: Change to "...the length AND SIZE of an audio or video clip that will be started..." 12. Checkpoints 11.2 and 11.4: These appear to mean the same thing. True? If so, one should be deleted. 13. Section 3, Terms and Definitions: Assistive Technology: "...In the area of Web Accessibility, common software-based assistive technologies include assistive technologies, which rely on other user agents for input and/or output." GF: It sounds to me like you're defining assistive technology as... assistive technology. Perhaps something like this would be better: "...In the area of Web Accessibility, common software-based assistive technologies include those which rely on other user agents for input and/or output." 14. Section 3, Terms and Definitions: Continuous Equivalent Track: "Captions are generally rendered visually by being superimposed over a video track..." GF: Actually, you can put captions just about anywhere you want to, not just superimposed over video. Perhaps change this to, "Captions are generally rendered visually by displaying them below, above or superimposed over video." 15. Section 3, Terms and Definitions: Viewports: "The user perceives the information through a viewport, which may be a window, frame, a piece of paper, a panner, a speaker..." GF: What's a panner? _______________________________________________________________ Thierry MICHEL tmichel@w3.org W3C / INRIA +33 (0) 4 92 38 79 87 2004, Route des Lucioles BP 93 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France _______________________________________________________________
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