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Subject: [xtm-wg] RE: XTM 1.0 Spec Accessibility Features
OK - but not before Washington! Sounds like a good one to think about on the plane, & I have some experience in presenting diagrams to a class with simultaneous verbal translation for a blind student, so I think I can do this sensibly. Did you find any trace of a recommended way to describe UML? - sounds like the sort of thing there might be some precedent on, in WAI-space (which I don't know well at all). Cheers Ann W. > -----Original Message----- > From: Murray Altheim [mailto:Murray.Altheim@Eng.Sun.COM] > Sent: 28 November 2000 19:20 > To: Wrightson, Ann > Cc: XTM Authoring Group > Subject: XTM 1.0 Spec Accessibility Features > > > Other title of this message: Documentation of UML Diagrams > > Ann, > > I've decided to try to out-do the W3C in their Web > Accessibility Initiative, > since few of their own documents are particularly accessible to the > handicapped. In going through the WAI guidelines, we've met "Triple-A" > conformance so far as I can ascertain. We do need to provide some help > for our UML diagrams, though. > > Since we only have nine diagrams, I've made what are called d-links, > which are small 'd's to the bottom right of each graphic. (This is a > feature touted by the WAI community, not something I've made up.) > Additionally, there is a 'longdesc' attribute on each graphic. Both > point to a new document that provides textual descriptions of the UML > diagrams, plus a general description of the structure and navigation > features of our spec. The descriptions of the UML diagrams > aren't meant > to reiterate the text, they merely describe the UML itself, ie., what > someone would understand, say, if they called you on the phone and > were asked "what do you see there?" > > This is where I'm asking you, and potentially anyone else who > took part > in the CMS group, to come up with short texts in this regard. This > shouldn't be particularly difficult, since this doesn't require an > understanding of what the diagrams *means*, simply what the UML *looks > like*. Just a short bit. > > This is a supplement to the 1.0 specification, so it doesn't have to > be done by our deadline. I've already provided the text of the UML > captions, which is helpful in itself, but as I receive the > descriptions > I can put it on the page. > > If you aren't able timewise to provide this text, perhaps I > can ask you > to discuss this among the CMS people and find someone who > might be able? > > Thanks! I think XTM will potentially be a good WAI citizen. > [We may need > to ask some WAI people for a review of our syntax, which wouldn't be a > bad idea. Most likely they'd recommend additional attributes > like 'alt'.] > > Murray > > .............................................................. > ............. > Murray Altheim, SGML/XML Grease Monkey <mailto:altheim@eng.sun.com> XML Technology Center Sun Microsystems, 1601 Willow Rd., MS UMPK17-102, Menlo Park, CA 94025 In the evening The rice leaves in the garden Rustle in the autumn wind That blows through my reed hut. -- Minamoto no Tsunenobu -------------------------- eGroups Sponsor -------------------------~-~> eGroups eLerts It's Easy. It's Fun. Best of All, it's Free! http://click.egroups.com/1/9698/0/_/337252/_/975501727/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------_-> To Post a message, send it to: xtm-wg@eGroups.com To Unsubscribe, send a blank message to: xtm-wg-unsubscribe@eGroups.com
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