RE: [XAG] 2.11 final form - "don't make final-form authoring form ats"

-1.

reasons: We haven't got any agreement on what final form 'means'
in words that don't leave someone uncomfortable.
Similarly I'm not happy with "a specific device or delivery context, "
I'd generally assumed that [information] is delivered to people,
rather than machines. The 'delivery context' is something I agree
with, but I can see others have various definitions of it.

My rough definition of delivery context is a person, having
specified their own media preferences, for a specific instance.

Surely the device is only a part of that context? 
E.g. a pc with tts, a DAISY player, an embosser, plain text in
an editor or whatever. The device is hence a tool which is used
by the recipient in this specific case?

How to put that back into Charles proposal I'm less sure :-)

regards DaveP


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles McCathieNevile [mailto:charles@sidar.org]
> Sent: 15 October 2003 19:28
> To: wai-xtech@w3.org
> Subject: [XAG] 2.11 final form - "don't make final-form authoring
> formats"
> 
> 
> 
> I propose that we either:
> 
> change the title of this checkpoint to "Do no create 
> final-form formats 
> as authoring formats"
> 
> or
> 
> make it a success criterion under checkpoint 2.1 that where a 
> format is 
> designed for delivery to a specific device or delivery context, the 
> specification points to a source format that can be successfully 
> transformed for use in a variety of contexts - voice input/output, 
> small screen output, small keyboard input, desktop usage.
> 
> cheers
> 
> Chaals
> 
> --
> Charles McCathieNevile                          Fundación Sidar
> charles@sidar.org                                http://www.sidar.org
> 

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Received on Thursday, 16 October 2003 03:22:27 UTC