- From: Al Gilman <Alfred.S.Gilman@IEEE.org>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 21:11:06 -0400
- To: wai-xtech@w3.org
At 12:24 PM -0700 6 06 2007, John Foliot wrote: >Al Gilman wrote: > >> b) the page from which you download the print-image PDF also sports a >> trip-planner interactive application. This is arguably equivalent >> facilitation. I've been in the habit of telling people that such a >> feature is an above-equal alternative. > >Yes-and-no: with a large table of data I can do some multi-stream >"planning", as correlations are apparent in total, whereas an interactive >"trip planner" is a single-stream process... If the first result is not >quite what you want or expect, you need to start all the way back at the >beginning: as well, comparative decisions require multiple passes. >Functional alternative perhaps, but not above-equal (IMHO). Good points. I'm probably mis-remembering that rating anyway. I think it originated with map applications, things like transit route maps. When a planner comes into its own is when there are transfers along the route. Then figuring things out from the timetables can be pretty tedious. Al > >JF
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