Re: UAAG2 Action 852 to write IER for 1.1.2

+1 for the rewording of Brin.


On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 8:43 AM, Richards, Jan <jrichards@ocadu.ca> wrote:

> I agree with Greg's points.so the text would read:
>
> Intent of Success Criterion 1.1.X:
> Users need to be able to easily discover when authors have provided
> alternative web content that may be of interest to them so that they can
> decide whether to have it rendered (see 1.1.1). While the type of indicator
> is not prescribed, the success criterion does require that the indicator be
> placed with the rendered content that has the alternative, which rules out
> indicators in the status bar, etc. that do not clearly identify which
> content within a document has the alternative.  Examples of suitable
> indicators include outlines, adjacent icons, adjacent links, etc. As with
> any other feature of the user agent, the indicator itself must be
> accessible (e.g. be keyboard accessible, be zoomable, etc.)
>
> Examples of Success Criterion 1.1.X:
> - Chris is color blind. He does not use a screen reader or other assistive
> technologies, but sometimes has difficulty interpreting diagrams in which
> the author has used color alone to convey meaning (e.g. to label lines).
> Therefore, Chris likes to read long descriptions when the author has
> provided them. To let himself know when long descriptions are available,
> Chris sets a setting in his browser that places a "Description" link
> adjacent to any image with a long description. Chris clicks the link to
> open the long description in a new browser pane.
> - Aosa is blind. When rendering a Web page using synthesized speech, the
> user agent generates an audible tone to signify that the word being read is
> an acronym, and Aosa can press the * key to hear the expansion. When the
> phrase being read is the Alt text for an image, another tone indicates that
> Aosa can press + to hear the long description.
> -  [mobile] Brin is deaf. The video player she is uses on her mobile phone
> displays a "CC" button in the control bar directly below the video when
> captions are available. She taps the button to toggle the captions on so
> she can understand the video.
>
> Related Resources for Success Criterion 1.1.X:
> - "HTML5 Image Description Extension (longdesc)" (
> http://www.w3.org/TR/html-longdesc/#longdesc)
> - "User Agents and longdesc Discoverability" (
> http://www.d.umn.edu/~lcarlson/research/ld-ua.html)
>
>
>
> From: Greg Lowney [mailto:gcl-0039@access-research.org]
> Sent: September-11-13 4:02 PM
> To: Richards, Jan
> Cc: WAI-UA list
> Subject: Re: UAAG2 Action 852 to write IER for 1.1.2
>
> I have only one substantial issue with this: the mobile example reads "On
> her mobile phone, Brin touches a video, which displays the controls
> including the 'display caption' control." I understand the intent, but it
> reads as if saying it's okay for the use to have to query an item to find
> out whether it has alternative content. That is, of course, exactly the
> opposite of what this SC is requiring.
>
> A few minor typos and grammatical errors:
>
> 1) delete "have" from "so that they can have decide whether".
>
> 2) ", this rules out indicators" would be better grammar with "which"
> instead of "this", or a semicolon instead of comma.
>
> 3) "clicks the link the open" should be "clicks the link to open".
>
> 4) and of course, as no one at our latest Face to Face can forget, take
> out the commas after each "e.g." :-)
>
>     Thanks,
>     Greg
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: UAAG2 Action 852 to write IER for 1.1.2
> From: Richards, Jan <jrichards@ocadu.ca>
> To: WAI-UA list <w3c-wai-ua@w3.org>
> Date: 9/10/2013 6:42 AM
> Oops - that was action 852
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richards, Jan
> Sent: September-10-13 10:19 AM
> To: WAI-UA list
> Subject: UAAG2 Action 875 to write IER for 1.1.2
>
> Was already done...the proposal is here:
>  http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ua/2013JulSep/0020.html
>
> -Jan
>
>
>
>


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