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From: Gregg Vanderheiden
Date: Mon, Mar 26 2007 2:45 PM
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Hmmm
This has the same problem. "What if they are not?"
Can we just specify real values of contrast that should be possible?
Gregg
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Gregg C Vanderheiden Ph.D.
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> What about
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> "Applications shall display themselves utilizing user
> selected contrast and color selections and other individual
> display attributes when the availability of those selections
> are developed and documented as standard operating system functions."
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> To: 'TEITAC Web/Software Subcommittee'
> Subject: [teitac-websoftware] 21 g - revision
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> The proposed (new) wording is:
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> Applications shall utilize user selected contrast and color
> selections and other individual display attributes when the
> availability of those selections are developed and documented
> according to industry standards.
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> I'm not sure this will work. The proposed new wording
> appears to not
> be testable as formulated and appears to be more limited than
> the original.
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> Some questions
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> 1) What if there are no industry standards? Do you not have to
> respect user settings?
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> - What are the industry standards for documentation?
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> - What are the industry standards for development.
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> We would need to define these terms and point to the industry
> standard in order to allow anyone to use this.
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> 2) This provision seems to say that you don't have to honor user
> settings if the settings are not developed using the standards.
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> 3) The term 'utilize' is also unclear. Does this mean
> follow? Or just use them in their calculations?
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> The old wording had no such conditions so this would be
> considerably weaker.
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> Can we use wording like WCAG?
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