- From: Rotan Hanrahan <Rotan.Hanrahan@MobileAware.com>
- Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 10:25:15 +0100
- To: "Kai Hendry" <hendry@cs.helsinki.fi>, <www-di@w3.org>
Scaling, as described in recent discussions, is probably safe to be described as part of the field of accessibility, insofar as it can enable otherwise inaccessible content to be accessible. I would also put it into the field of usability, since further scaling (under the control of the end user) can convert a merely accessible form of content into something that the user would actually use. If you take usability to the extreme, as would be the case when faced with a user who has specific extraordinary needs, then it falls under the umbrella of accessiblity as defined by WAI. I don't think a hierarchy is plausable. I prefer to use Venn Diagrams when describing DI, accessibility, usability and malleability. The last one shouldn't be overlooked, as this characteristic determines the success of adaptation, including at the client-side (which it would seem would be the preferred place for adaptation, were it not for other issues such as bandwidth wastage, client processing requirements etc.) Keep posting to the list, as the material here is guaranteed to persist (in accordance with W3C philosophy), whereas your blog is neither guaranteed to be fixed nor persistent. And feel free to cross-post to WAI, as this discussion has now drifted into the realm of human accessibiliy and worthy of mutual consideration. ---Rotan. -----Original Message----- From: Kai Hendry [mailto:hendry@cs.helsinki.fi] Sent: 09 June 2004 09:50 To: www-di@w3.org Subject: plotting accessibility Is transcoding the same as re-adaption? http://www.w3.org/2000/10/DIAWorkshop/dia-realistic.html And is it safe to safe scaling is part of the field of accessibility? And is it to safe "device independence" is part of the field of accessibility? Is there a difference between "universal" accessibility (crops up a lot in academic literature), and vanilla "accessibility"? I am trying desperately to apply logic to this all. :) Does this little bit of UTF-8 art look plausible: [universal] accessibility | ---------------------------------------- | | | Usability Device independence Special needs | | * Visual | Scaling * Hearing Multi-Modality * Cognitive Perhaps someone could point me out to some "authoritative sources". :) I wrote a bit of piece on text width I would appreciate comments on: http://natalian.org/archives/2004/06/09/text-width/ It's quite frustrating how I go back and forth between this email list and the web blog. The two should converge... I wonder if I should I should start (cross-)posting to w3c-wai-ig!?
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