Thread Subject: Re: Definition of Web Content

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From: Gregg Vanderheiden
Date: Sat, Jun 23 2007 4:30 PM

Comments below under your questions.




Gregg
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Gregg C Vanderheiden Ph.D.






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Allen
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 7:18 AM
To: TEITAC Web/Software Subcommittee
Subject: Re: [teitac-websoftware] Definition of Web Content

I Like these definitions, but would like to get a walk through how some
items fit.



1. i open an email in a software-based email client. The email is in HTML.
is that web? The email is not opened in the browser but a sub-browser extra
rendering agent.





<start of answer to question #1>

GV: The email program would be web content when empty



When full it is web content with additional content in it. The whole page
(email client and email) is web content since you fetched it via Http and it
is displayed in a browser.



In setting rules - it would be important to say that web clients should
conform when empty (when purchased) and when they contain conforming email.



I think you want to ask the question about whether email should conform
separately and independent of the particular client that is displaying it.
(e.g. is the IT environment accessible if everyone is dependent on email
and it is not accessible).

<end of answer to question #1>



2. I open a help item in a software package. The help items are stored in
an HTML format. the help file is rendered but not within a specific full
stand-alone browser.



<start of answer to question #2>

No - that is not web content. (But it would be useful to use the Web
guidelines in making it accessible)

<end of answer to question #2>



3. I open a document that is not coded in HTML, and does not open in a
browser, but another word processor.



<start of answer to question #3>

No - that is not web content. (But it would be useful to use the Web
guidelines in making it accessible)

<end of answer to question #3>



Allen Hoffman -- = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = ; v: 202-447-0303






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Vanderheiden
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 5:48 PM
To: 'TEITAC Web/Software Subcommittee'
Subject: [teitac-websoftware] Definition of Web Content

These two are from WCAG






content (Web content)


information and sensory experience to be communicated to the user by means
of a user agent <http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WCAG20/#useragentdef> , as well as
code or markup that define the structure
<http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WCAG20/#structuredef> , presentation
<http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WCAG20/#presentationdef> , and interactions
associated with those elements








Web page


a resource that is referenced by a URI and is not embedded in another
resource, plus any other resources that are used in the rendering or
intended to be rendered together with it

Note: Although any "other resources" would be rendered together with the
primary resource, they would not necessarily be rendered simultaneously with
each other.

Example 1: When you enter http://shopping.example.com/ in your browser you
enter a movie-like interactive shopping environment where you visually move
about a store dragging products off of the shelves around you into a visual
shopping cart in front of you. Clicking on a product causes it to be
demonstrated with a specification sheet floating alongside.

Example 2: A Web resource including all embedded images and media.

Example 3: A Web mail program built using Asynchronous JavaScript and XML
(AJAX). The program lives entirely at http://mail.example.com, but includes
an inbox, a contacts area and a calendar. Links or buttons are provided that
cause the the inbox, contacts, or calendar to display, but do not change the
URL of the page as a whole.

Example 4: A customizable portal site, where users can choose content to
display from a set of different content modules.






Gregg

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