RE: American Airlines - Angry Birds

Hi Mark,

> In practice, I don't see this as any different from the other AA app (American Airlines), which may well be implemented using PhoneGap, uses HTML, may allow in-app purchases (tickets), and includes advertising.

Agreed. My answers to your questions are:

1. What is the UA in the case of Angry Aardvarks?
B. The PhoneGap application (which includes the Webview Control) - see http://phonegap.com/2012/05/02/phonegap-explained-visually/

2. The Angry Aardvarks developer should conform with and follow:
A. WCAG 2.0 and Mobile Web Best Practices.

BUT as I said in my last email, I'm still open to suggestions of relevant UAAG SCs that WCAG misses.

Cheers,
Jan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hakkinen, Mark T [mailto:mhakkinen@ets.org]
> Sent: June-20-13 11:16 AM
> To: Richards, Jan; UAWG list
> Subject: RE: American Airlines - Angy Birds
> 
> Here is another take on Angry Birds as UA.
> 
> Assume a game developer has a great idea for a game, Ambivalent Aardvarks
> (AA, for a reason). This developer comes from the Web space and wants to
> leverage existing HTML5 experience, specifically, existing code for a Canvas-
> based game prototype.  The developer chooses PhoneGap [1] in order to
> simultaneously create iOS and Android versions of the game. PhoneGap's
> design is based on wrapping the native WebView control from each target
> platform within a platform specific app framework. The developer then
> packages one or more HTML pages with the associated javascript, CSS,
> images, etc, defines a start page, and then publishes the app to the target
> platform. The app can access both local and remote resources.  In the case of
> Ambivalent Aardvarks, the game includes HTML5 video intros for each level,
> in-game purchases via built in access to a mobile eCommerce site, and in
> game advertising, displayed as either GIF or PNG, with a button to cancel the
> ad after a time delay, and a link to go to the advertiser's web site.  The UI is
> split between game functions handled directly in the HTML, and others that
> may utilize PhoneGap specific functions and UI to control the game session.
> 
> In practice, I don't see this as any different from the other AA app (American
> Airlines), which may well be implemented using PhoneGap, uses HTML, may
> allow in-app purchases (tickets), and includes advertising.
> 
> Question:
> 
> 1. What is the UA in the case of Angry Aardvarks?
> 
> A. The WebView Control.
> B. The PhoneGap application.
> C. Neither A nor B.
> D. Both A and B.
> 
> 2. The Angry Aardvarks developer should conform with and follow:
> 
> A. WCAG 2.0 and Mobile Web Best Practices.
> B. UAAG 2.0 and Mobile Accessibility Examples from Implementing UAAG
> 2.0.
> C. Neither A nor B.
> D. Both A and B.
> 
> Mark
> 
> [1] http://www.phonegap.com
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richards, Jan [mailto:jrichards@ocadu.ca]
> Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2013 9:38 AM
> To: UAWG list
> Subject: RE: American Airlines - Angy Birds
> 
> I don't know the architecture of angry birds, but it very well could be the
> following:
> 
> (1) A collection of scenarios encoded in an SVG-like "AngryBirdML" format:
> <AngryBirdML>
>   <birds><yellow/><red/></birds>
>   <pigs><pig x y/><pig x y/></pigs>
>   <structures><wood x1 y1 x2 y2/><glass x1 y1 x2 y2/></structures>
>   <ground-level y/>
> </AngryBirdML>
> 
> (2) An angry bird app that knows how to render AngryBirdML on the screen,
> both graphically and with a physics model (e.g. so that if the wood and glass
> are unsupported they will fall to the ground and break). The app facilitates
> user exploration (panning, pinch zoom) and interaction (pull back and launch
> birds) with  the scenario.
> 
> How is this really different than an SVG User Agent? I think the difference is
> that there is a stronger contract between developers of the user agent and
> the scenarios, such that the scenario developer doesn't throw the UA curve
> balls, like trying to build a text edit field out of wood and pigs. :)
> 
> THAT ALL SAID, I think the constructive thing to do is to consider the
> Americans Airlines app and figure out which SCs in UAAG should realistically
> apply and aren't already covered by WCAG2 already...then we could identify
> these in separate conformance profile or note.
> 
> Cheers,
> Jan
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Simon Harper [mailto:simon.harper@manchester.ac.uk]
> > Sent: June-20-13 3:40 AM
> > To: WWW UAWG
> > Subject: American Airlines - Angy Birds
> >
> > Hi Everyone,
> >
> > So after the CG meeting yesterday - for which I had a none functioning
> > mic - I was thinking more about our American Airlines - Angry Birds
> > example. In that we think AA App is a UA while AB Game isn't. In
> > reality, I think AB Game is an app but not a user agent. Now why is
> > this? Well a UA is created from two
> > words:
> >
> > A *user* of a system <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System> is a person
> > who interacts with the system, to enable its operation
> > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation>, or to utilize its function.
> >
> >
> > An *Agent* is one who acts for, or in the place of, another, by
> > authority from him; one entrusted with the business of another.
> >
> > In this case, it seems clear that the AA App is acting for a user, or
> > in the place of a user, by the users' authority. A user entrusts AA App with
> their business.
> >
> > The AB Game on the other hand does not posses these traits of being an
> > agent of the user.
> >
> > I think we are having this problem due to the imprecise nature of the
> > definition of application software -
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_software
> >
> > It seems to me that we are also thinking about Apps outside of our
> > definitions. So first of all is AA an UA - yes / is AB a UA - no
> > (according to the definitions above). Next, how does AA manifest - is
> > it a WebApp - yes as the UI is created by a UA rendering of HTML which
> > facilitates interactivity. Is it a mobile UA - will at this point I
> > don't know as I'm unsure as to the technology used in this case.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > --
> > Si.
> >
> > PS I check my email at 08:00 and 17:00 GMT. If you require a faster
> > response please include the word 'fast' in the subject line.
> >
> > =======================
> > Simon Harper
> > My Business Card   - http://simon.harper.name/about/card/
> > Schedule a Meeting - http://doodle.com/simon.harper.name
> >
> > University of Manchester (UK)
> > Web Ergonomics Lab - Information Management Group
> > http://wel.cs.manchester.ac.uk
> >
> 
> 
> 
> 
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