- From: Jon Gunderson <jongund@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 11:12:05 -0500
- To: "Gregory J. Rosmaita" <unagi69@concentric.net>
- Cc: w3c-wai-ua@w3.org
Some history of the priority changes for volume and splitting of the checkpoint into separate audio and speech synthesis components. 1. The November 11 1998 working draft [1] had a priority one checkpoint "Allow the user to override author styles and user agent defaults for audio volume" 2. The audio volume issue was discussed at the December 1998 Face-to-Face meeting [2] in Boston. 3. There didn't seem to be any further discussion of audio volume during the telecons for December 1998, January 1999 and February 1999 4. The February 10th 1999 working draft [3] has the checkpoints for audio volume split and set at a priority 2 level. The priority 2 level was justified in the changes document[4], since assistive listening devices could be used to make the audio more accessible to people who are hard of hearing. Other discussions referenced the limited control software developers have over the particular hardware available to users. 5. The raising of synthesized speech to priority one occurred in the October 4th 1999 version of the guidelines document as the result of a discussion at the September 22nd, 1999 telecon. This was part of the resolution of issue 83 [7]. Jon [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/WD-WAI-USERAGENT-19981112/ [2] http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/1998/12/wai-ua-f2f-19981211.html [3] http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/WD-WAI-USERAGENT-19990210/ [4] http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/WD-WAI-USERAGENT-19990210/changes [5] http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/WAI-USERAGENT-19991004/ [6] http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/1999/09/wai-ua-telecon-19990922.html [7] http://cmos-eng.rehab.uiuc.edu/ua-issues/issues-linear.html#83 Jon Gunderson, Ph.D., ATP Coordinator of Assistive Communication and Information Technology Division of Rehabilitation - Education Services MC-574 College of Applied Life Studies University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign 1207 S. Oak Street, Champaign, IL 61820 Voice: (217) 244-5870 Fax: (217) 333-0248 E-mail: jongund@uiuc.edu WWW: http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~jongund WWW: http://www.w3.org/wai/ua
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