- From: Wendy A Chisholm <wendy@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 17:45:52 -0500
- To: wai-xtech@w3.org
- Cc: bingham@pop.tiac.net
Harvey, I've forwarded this e-mail to the xtech mailing list so it can be included in the archives. Please send future e-mail on the combined glossary to that list. Thanks, --wendy >X-Sender: hwbingham@pop.rcn.com >X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0.2 >Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 17:35:11 -0500 >To: "Judy Brewer" <jbrewer@w3.org>, "Wendy Chisholm" <wendy@w3.org>, > "Daniel Dardailler" <danield@w3.org>, > "Jon Gunderson" <jongund@staff.uiuc.edu>, > "Katie Haritos-Shea" <ryladog@earthlink.net>, "Ian Jacobs" > <ij@w3.org>, > "Leonard R. Kasday" <kasday@acm.org>, > "Charles McCathieNevile" <charles@w3.org>, > "Jan Richards" <jan.richards@utoronto.ca>, > "Jutta Treviranus" <jutta.treviranus@utoronto.ca>, > "Jason White" <jasonw@ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU> >From: "Harvey Bingham" <hbingham@acm.org> >Subject: WAI Combined Glossary > >Good to see Section 2 Abbreviations in the current draft. Thanks >for continued work on it. I've 4 suggestions, following. > >1. Merged Glossary I appreciate the means to incorporate current glossary >terms and definitions from the many documents. An extension might be to >extract glossary terms from all W3C documents referenced among the WAI >documents. Either WAI-only or WAI+Referenced forms could be exposed. > >2. See and See Also References One potential problem appears in the >glossary of the User Agent Guidelines [UAAG10]: > >A glossary term may actually contain several related or contrasted terms, >without separate definition references to those different terms. >In a combined glossary, these should as a minimum have cross-references. >Both "see" and "see also" references are appropriate. WCAG10 at one >point uses "Also" > >Application Programming Interface (API), standard input/output/device API >Configure, Control >Document Object, Document Object Model >Document source, Document source view >Enabled element, disabled element >Events and scripting, event handler >Focus, content focus, user interface focus, current focus >Normative, informative >Properties, values, and defaults >Rendered content, rendered text >Repair content, repair text >Selection, current selection >Support, implement, conform >Text content, non-text content, text element, non-text element, text >equivalent non-text equivalent >Views, viewports > >The current unified glossary: > http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/2000/12/unified-glossary >picks up those UAAG10 terms, approximately. >Some examples: > >Accessibility [ATAG10] (Also: Accessible [ATAG10]) >Configure and Control [UAAG10] >Document Content, Structure, and Presentation [WCAG10] [WCAG20] >Document Object, Document Object Model [UAAG10] >Document Source, Document Source View [UAAG10] >Documents, Elements, and Attributes [UAAG10] >DTD's, Documents Definition Types >THAT ONE IS WRONG, "Document Type Definitions" >... >Dyslexia, Dyscalculia [PWD-Use-Web1] >Element has five variants from five sources. >... >Events and scripting, event handler [UAAG10] >Event has two other definitions >Focus, content focus, user interface focus, current focus [UAAG10] >Local URI reference, Non-local URI reference [SVG10] >MacRomanEncoding, MacExpertEncoding, or WinAnsi Encoding [WCAG10] [WCAG20] >(PDF-Tech) >Map, mapped [WCAG10] [WCAG20] >Normative / Non-normative [WCAG10] [WCAG20] >Parser, Parsing XML, XHTML >Prompt has two definitions >Properties, values, and defaults [UAAG10] >Repair content, Repair text [UAAG10] >Rendered content, rendered text [UAAG10] >Selection , Current selection [UAAG10] >Style sheets, Valid style sheets [WCAG10] [WCAG20] >Support, Implement, Conform [UAAG10] >Text [UAAG10] NEW 01-01-25 NEW LINKS 01-01-13 > Text content, non-text content, text element, non-text element, > text equivalent, non-text equivalent >Type 0 font, Type 1 font [WCAG10] [WCAG20] (PDF-Tech) >User Agent has 4 definitions. >User coordinate system, user space [SVG10] >User-initiated and User Agent-initiated [UAAG10] >User units, user space [SVG10] >Views, viewports, and current viewport [UAAG10] >Viewport coordinate system, viewport space [SVG10] > >Note that some of the terms are logically >at the appropriate alphabetical place, but >others are not. A reader should find the >sought term at its proper alphabetic place >in the glossary, and may find a "see" >reference there. For example: > >Graceful Transformation, Graceful Degradation NEW 01-03-23 >See: Transform Gracefully > >3. Inconsistent Multiple Forms > >Normative / Non-normative WCAG 1.0 and 2.0 > >Whereas the form from UAAG10 is (as recently added): > >Normative, informative > >4. Capitalization Consistency: The entries from some sources, >including [PWD-Use-Web1] [SSML11] >have all words capitalized. Other sources only >capitalize the first word of a term or phrase. >Others capitalize only "important" words. > >Inconsistent capitalization occurs in [WCAG10] [WCAG20] > > >Regards/Harvey Bingham -- wendy a chisholm world wide web consortium web accessibility initiative madison, wi usa tel: +1 608 663 6346 /--
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