Re: How People with Disabilities Use the Web: Diversity page

Hi Alan,

Just a quick note to confirm that I have received your comments and will 
be addressing them along with others that I am still expecting.

Best,
   Shadi


On 27.4.2011 21:10, Alan Chuter wrote:
> Some last-minute comments on this page [1] that I have just read. My
> apologies if these items have already been discussed.
>
> In the "Content formats" section I initially was confused by the term
> "formats" as it suggests a document format, such as HTML or ODF. The
> title continues with "hearing, feeling, and seeing" which doesn't
> clarify matters. I can't think of a more precise word, but perhaps
> "different forms" or "different ways", or in the title append "for" as
> in "Content formats - for hearing, feeling, and seeing".
>
> The phrase "some people *are* not seeing the screen" sounds odd to me;
> it would be better to say "some people are not able to see the
> screen".
>
> In the third paragraph of "More about content formats", the phrase
> "need to be created with at least some level of human intervention"
> does not relate properly to the opening "In some cases, content can be
> converted into different formats using software or hardware". I think
> that the opening phrase should be qualified as "... converted into
> different formats by the user's own software or hardware".
>
> In the last sentence of the third paragraph "Sometimes software tools,
> such as voice and image recognition, can assist authors in providing
> such formats but the conversion is usually not fully automatable"
> should be qualified with the phrase "emerging technologies" to avoid
> giving the reader false expectations. Or maybe I'm out of touch with
> recent developments.
>
> regards,
>
> Alan
>
> [1] http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/Drafts/PWD-Use-Web/2009/browsing
>

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