ACTION-851: Review 1.8.1,x to see if they can be merged into 1.3.1-2 to avoid duplication

On 2013-07-18 we resolved to accept Jan's proposal to split 1.8.1 (Highlight Viewport) into two SC, 1.8.1 (Highlight Viewport) and 1.8.x (Customize Viewport Highlighting), but I was given the action item of determining whether they could be merged into 1.3.1 (Highlighted Items) and 1.3.2 (Highlighting Options) in order to reduce the number of SC. This led me to review those SC.

Further below are a list of five recommended changes. Because there are a bunch of separate but related proposals the final wording depends on which set of options we accept, I start with two potential final versions, the first with the currently agreed-upon four SC, and second reducing them to two. Changes are enclosed in asterisks. At the bottom are the currently agreed-upon wording.


    Option A, with four SC:


1.8.1 Highlight Viewport: The user can have the viewport with the input focus be highlighted. (Level A)

1.8.x Customize Viewport Highlighting: *When highlighting viewports as specified by 1.8.1 Highlight Viewport,* the user can customize attributes of the highlighting mechanism (e.g. shape, size, stroke width, color, blink rate). (Level AA)

1.3.1 Highlighted Items: The user can specify that the following classes be highlighted so that each is uniquely distinguished: (Level A)
     (a) Selection
     (b) Active keyboard focus (indicated by focus cursors and/or text cursors)
     (c) Recognized enabled input elements (distinguished from disabled elements)
     (d) Recently visited links

1.3.2 Highlighting Options: When highlighting classes specified by 1.3.1 Highlighted Items, the user can specify highlighting options that include at least: (Level AA)
     (a) Foreground colors
     (b) Background colors
     (c) Borders (color, style, and thickness)
     *(d) Shape and size when the indicator is an image*
     *(e) Blink rate when blinking is implemented*


    Option B, with two SC:

[1.8.1 would be replaced with the following Note.]

*Note: See 1.3.1 and 1.3.2 regarding highlighting of the active viewport.*

1.3.1 Highlighted Items: The user can specify that the following classes be highlighted so that each is uniquely distinguished: (Level A)
     (a) Selection
     (b) Active keyboard focus (indicated by focus cursors and/or text cursors)
     (c) Recognized enabled input elements (distinguished from disabled elements)
     (d) Recently visited links
     *(e) Active viewport*

1.3.2 Highlighting Options: When highlighting classes specified by 1.3.1 Highlighted Items, the user can specify highlighting options that include at least: (Level AA)
     (a) Foreground colors
     (b) Background colors
     (c) Borders (color, style, and thickness)
     *(d) Shape and size when the indicator is an image*
     *(e) Blink rate when blinking is implemented*


    *My five recommendations are:*

1.    We haven't yet implemented the resolutions to split 1.8.1 into two SC, probably because it was waiting for this action item, but if we don't delete them we should.

2.    I'm okay either keeping all four SC in order to keep the SC about viewports together, or merging 1.8.1/x into 1.3.1 and 1.3.2. If we merge them we would do all of the following:

     (a) delete 1.8.1 (and also 1.8.x, if and where it was already split off 1.8.1),
     (b) add to 1.3.1 another list item "active viewport",
     (c) add to 1.8 "Note: See 1.3.1 and 1.3.2 regarding highlighting of the active viewport."

3.    If we decide to keep 1.8.x, it should be reworded because the agreed-upon wording does not work when taken out of context (i.e. it talks about highlighting, not about highlighting viewports). It should be changed to something like "When highlighting viewports as specified by 1.8.1 Highlight Viewport, highlighting options include at least" (which parallels the wording of 1.3.2, Highlighting Options).

4.    In the chat of 2013-07-18 I'd suggested that we add to 1.3.2 "(d) shape and size when the indicator is an image", but it was at the very end and we didn't end up discussing it.

5.    If we don't merge 1.8.x into 1.3, I suggest adding to 1.3.2 an additional list item, "blink rate, where blinking is implemented", thus paralleling the fact that blinking is referenced in 1.8.x.


    *For reference, here's the wording per the resolution to split 1.8.1, but not including the suggestions above:*


1.8.1 Highlight Viewport: The user can have the viewport with the input focus be highlighted. (Level A)

1.8.x Customize Viewport Highlighting: The user can customize attributes of the highlighting mechanism (e.g. shape, size, stroke width, color, blink rate). (Level AA)

1.3.1 Highlighted Items: The user can specify that the following classes be highlighted so that each is uniquely distinguished: (Level A)
     (a) Selection
     (b) Active keyboard focus (indicated by focus cursors and/or text cursors)
     (c) Recognized enabled input elements (distinguished from disabled elements)
     (d) Recently visited links

1.3.2 Highlighting Options: When highlighting classes specified by 1.3.1 Highlighted Items, the user can specify highlighting options that include at least: (Level AA)
     (a) Foreground colors
     (b) Background colors
     (c) Borders (color, style, and thickness).

     Thanks,
     Greg