Re: Editorial comments on "Shared Web Experiences: Barriers Common to Mobile Device Users and People with Disabilities"

Yeliz, comments below.

Jo

On 13/10/2008 22:01, Yeliz Yesilada wrote:
> Hi Jo,
> 
> Thanks for your comments.
> 
> On 13 Oct 2008, at 10:13, Jo Rabin wrote:
> 
>> >> Under Focus (tab) order - I think the mobile section sort of 
>> implies that navigation is via tab key, which it isn't, but in any 
>> case it may be worth mentioning that it's hard to navigate with the 
>> common 4-way rocker.
>>
>> >Please let me know what you think about the latest version of the 
>> description, I tried not to talk about any specific technology here.
>>
>> Sorry if this seems a bit picky, or unduly politically correct, but
>>
>> "Mobile Context: Pointing device not present or inadequate."
>>
>> I think that saying "inadequate" opens a number of questions which we 
>> don't want to go into here, so maybe we can just say "There may be no 
>> pointing device"
> 
> 
> I understand your point. What about changing Mobile context to " Device 
> has no mouse, only alphanumeric keypad or joystick so user can use tab 
> navigation to move from one element to another". Do you think this will 
> solve the ambiguity in the definition?

I think the main point is only that the device usually won't have a mouse.

It may have a touch screen, it may just have a 10 key keypad, it might 
have a soft keyboard etc. so fwiw I don't think it is worth elaborating 
on what it may or may not have other than to note that there may not be 
a pointing device.
> 
>>
>> >Changed the description to "Some older mobile browsers do not display 
>> content with invalid markup. Additionally, content adaptation for 
>> mobile device agents is unpredictable and possibly incomplete if the 
>> page markup is invalid."
>>
>> I really think the second sentence (Additionally ...) asks more 
>> questions than it answers so it would be better if it was removed.
> 
> OK, I will remove that.
> 
> Please let me know what you think about the suggested change above so 
> that I can quickly change the document.
> 
> Yeliz.
>

Received on Tuesday, 14 October 2008 08:28:59 UTC