- From: Jon Gunderson <jongund@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 11:56:56 -0500
- To: Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>
- Cc: w3c-wai-ua@w3.org
Ian, I am not married to the term "single command", so if there is a better term I would like to use it. I think the term "direct access" has been used by the working group and you have brought it up in some telecons and that might be a useful term. Jon At 12:11 PM 7/25/2000 -0400, Ian Jacobs wrote: >Jon Gunderson wrote: > > > > I think the concept of "single command" as proposed by Ian [1] is a unique > > concept to the keyboard and I proposed that like checkpoint 1.3 that > > checkpoint 10.5 be only about the keyboard. I propose that we say that > > checkpoint 10.5 is a special case of both checkpoint 10.4 and checkpoint > > 1.3. > >This is interesting. I wondered yesterday (when writing the email) >whether single command should be w.r.t. the keyboard only. However, I >thought that one could (logically) justify preferring shorter phrases >just as one prefers shorter key combinations. > > >This way we can use the term "single command" to mean a more generic > > command in checkpoints we talk about configuration and single command would > > include concepts like a speech utterance, key press with or without a > > modifier key, or clicking an object with a mouse. In checkpoint 10.5 we > > can use the term "single key press" and make it clear that this is without > > a modifier key. > > > > What do people think? > >I don't think the term "single command" that has variable meanings >(e.g., key press with or without modifier) is useful. What is the >difference, at that point, between "Ctrl-X" and >"Ctrl-X Ctrl-Y Ctrl-Z"? What is the boundary of a single command? > >I understand the desire to have easy, simple, direct access. However, >I don't think that "single command" is any more precise. And, as I >mentioned, I think using the term "single" in two contexts is dangerous. > >In conclusion, I think that making 10.5 for the keyboard only is >an interesting option that I could live with. But I don't want to use >the term "single command" in the document. > > _ Ian > > > [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ua/2000JulSep/0134.html > >-- >Ian Jacobs (jacobs@w3.org) http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs >Tel: +1 831 457-2842 >Cell: +1 917 450-8783 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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