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Comment LC-1202
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Commenter: Al Gilman <Alfred.S.Gilman@IEEE.org>

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Requiring that the other way of showing the color-signaled information is visual is a UI requirement. It is not a content requirement.

This requirement is inappropriate for a claim that includes SALT in its baseline such that the default presentation would speak the information as well as show it with color.

Compare with UAAG 2.3. Sometimes you should not try to replicate the richness of the color coding in other, more limited property spaces, but rather signal that there is further information and expand on the further information on user interactive request.

Compare also to the 'minimized' treatment of notes in a DAISY player. Here the presence of a note is evident, the content of the note is available but on an 'ask for' basis.

24 bits per pixel of color-coded information is just too much information to assume that other visual effects can capture it all.

Proposed Change:

User Interface requirement:

strike the word 'visually' to leave "is also evident, or is available and the availability of more information is evident"

Content requirement:
The default prsentation afforded without user intervention satisfies the above requirement.

[alternate language: .. is visually evident ... in the author-designed visual presentation of the content]

Content requirement:
The connotations of color and other presentation-properties constitute non-text information and must (per 1.1.1) be afforded text explanations that are associated with the items bearing these presentation effects (and connotations), associated by an association that can be programmatically determined.
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(Please make sure the resolution is adapted for public consumption)


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