ISSUE: ARIA 5/14 Draft, Figure 1.0 is unclear and poorly styled. Perhaps unnecessary. from James Craig on 2008-06-09 (wai-xtech@w3.org from June 2008)

From: James Craig <jcraig@apple.com>
Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2008 18:30:40 -0700
To: W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>
Message-Id: <DBF16B06-209A-4D12-B067-A53F65BF92D4@apple.com>

ISSUE: ARIA 5/14 Draft, Figure 1.0 is unclear and poorly styled.  
Perhaps unnecessary.

I'm not sure what the "Data" and "UI" ellipses are representing in the  
diagram, and I'm not sure why they are ellipses and the other blocks  
are rectangles; it doesn't appear this follows the IA "visual  
vocabulary." I'm not sure why some of the arrows are multi-directional  
and some are unidirectional. I'm not sure why the AT item has a drop  
shadow and the other items don't. I'm not sure where user agents would  
fit into this contract model. I'm not sure if AT represents  
accessibility APIs, or if AT represents actual assistive technology  
that also interfaces with the accessibility APIs. Most importantly,  
I'm not sure the diagram adds anything worthwhile to the spec.

I suggest we either remove Figure 1.0 entirely, or if a diagram is  
absolutely essential, attempt to recreate it from scratch.

Received on Monday, 9 June 2008 01:31:20 UTC