- From: Jon Gunderson <jongund@uiuc.edu>
- Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 12:14:29 -0500
- To: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>, Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>
- Cc: w3c-wai-ua@w3.org
Charles, I think we need to be clear about where we expect alternative equivalents to be available so developers know what is expected to conform. Since they are alternative equivalents I think they should be associated with or replace the primary content specified by the author and be rendered through the the user interface. Jon At 12:47 PM 7/12/2000 -0400, Charles McCathieNevile wrote: >I agree with Ian - this proposal goes too far into the detail of User >Interface implementation. > >Charles McCN > >On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Ian Jacobs wrote: > > Jon Gunderson wrote: > > > > To make checkpoint 2.3 more explicit, I suggest the following changes: > > > > <OLD> > > 2.3 If content available in a viewport has equivalent alternatives, > provide > > easy access in context to the alternatives. > > </OLD> > > > > <NEW> > > 2.3 If content available in a viewport has equivalent alternatives, > render > > the alternative equivalents next to the primary content in the user > > interface. If it is not possible to render the alternative equivalents > > next to primary content, provide a one step command to access the > equivalents. > > </NEW> > > I don't know what "next to" means. What if styling is used (or must be > used) > to reposition it? What does next to mean in an international context? > What if there > is more than one equivalent? > > I imagine a much better UI (e.g., that of amaya) where information is > available through > consistently designed context-sensitive menus (that are accessible). I > actually prefer > not altering content if we can avoid it. > > - Ian > > P.S. I'm sending these comments late at night, after a ftf meeting, > without a lot of thought. > > > -- > Ian Jacobs (jacobs@w3.org) http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs > Tel: +1 831 457-2842 > Cell: +1 917 450-8783 > > >-- >Charles McCathieNevile mailto:charles@w3.org phone: +61 (0) 409 134 136 >W3C Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI >Location: I-cubed, 110 Victoria Street, Carlton VIC 3053 >Postal: GPO Box 2476V, Melbourne 3001, Australia 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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