Thread Subject: Re: A modest proposal

From: Greg Fields
Date: Wed, Sep 19 2007 10:40 AM

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- Technical provision 3-D User Preferences adopts a paradigm of platform
settings that are global to a platform, applied across multiple
applications and are user-definable.

- Provision 1.2-I already defines the requirements for text sizes

The idea behind the proposed change to 4-A.3 is to leverage the paradigm
of settings available to the platform, which includes the font size
requirements already defined elsewhere.

GregF

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[mailto: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = ] On Behalf Of Larry
Goldberg
Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 12:02 PM
To: TEITAC Audio/Video Subcommittee
Subject: Re: [teitac-video] A modest proposal

That's pretty much the issue - who is the burden put on? User,uthor/
producer,or manufacturer?


- Larry

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On Sep 19, 2007, at 11:48 AM, Karen Peltz Strauss
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> wrote:

> How easy will it be for users to delve into the device itself to
> change the
> text size? Would there be a way to enable users to exercise control
> over
> this feature through the interface controlling the video application
> itself?
> The concern is that if a person has to leave the application that is
> transmitting the video and go elsewhere into the inner workings of the
> device, they may have a very difficult time trying to figure out how
> to
> re-size the font. This would be especially true if they are federal
> employees who are not familiar with the general methods used for
> displaying
> and labeling text sizes on the media equipment - for example, the
> situation
> where a person is to watch a video for a government course and is
> handed a
> media device for this purpose.
>
> Karen
>
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> Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 11:15 AM
> Subject: Re: [teitac-video] A modest proposal
>
>
>> Larry - thank you for putting this together.
>>
>> Quick questions:
>> 1) As per Andrew Kirkpatrick's feedback, are we confident that all
>> devices in scope can support opacity levels?
>>
>> 2) Note that these types of devices in scope will have their own
>> method
>> for displaying and labeling the text sizes available on the device,
>> and
>> the size parameters would be measurable and most likely not defined
>> as
>> "smaller" or "larger". Should we perhaps alter the user-controllable
>> text size wording slightly to reflect this device reality? The
>> concept
>> we may need to capture is that the user-defined text sizing options
>> are
>> by default limited to those size options available on a given
>> device (or
>> platform).
>>
>> Possible re-word (very open to wordsmith feedback):
>>
>> "adjustment of the text sizes available on the device to provide
>> users
>> with multiple text display options."

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