Update Voice Systems and Conversational Interfaces

[tamsinewing555]

COGA- Pull Request Template

Summary:

• File(s) added/changed: ----

• Short description of changes: Editorial check of Abstract, Status of This Document, and Introduction: removed duplicated content; fixed links and typos; and made feedback section in the SoTD consistent with other publications.

• Notes (if needed): ----
  ##Source

• where is it from such as google docs url : ----

• when was it approved such as meeting minutes : ----

Did this break anything?

• No
• Yes

Type of change

• New section
• Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
• Structure change
• Super small fix (Corrected a typo, removed a comment, etc.)
• Skip all the other stuff and briefly explain the fix.

Code Quality Checklist:

• I checked the structure is the same as the original
• I checked the format is the same as the original
• paragraph before and after loads correctly without changes to the font or format

Editorial Quality Checklist:

• I did not check the editorial aspects
• grammar and capitalization
• short sentences and easy words
• Present tense and active voicing

[tamsinewing555]

@iadawn - I noticed that heading levels h2 and below are all in title case. Should we propose amending these to sentence case?

[tamsinewing555]

This link doesn't look quite right - is it correct?:
W3C maintains a public list of any patent disclosures (Cognitive and Learning Disabilities Accessibility Task Force), ...

[tamsinewing555]

Check that the Feedback section at the top of the documents has both a link to GitHub and to the email address. One of these is missing on:

• Voice systems and conversational interfaces
• SDM
• Online safety and wellbeing

[tamsinewing555]

Some sections of the SoTD in the modules have:

• a duplicated heading,
• sections that are either duplicated in the abstract or missing entirely
• incorrect links
• typos.

Proposed wording for the SoTD:

Status of This Document

This document is merely a W3C-internal document. It has no official standing of any kind and does not represent consensus of the W3C Membership.

This section describes the status of this document at the time of its publication. Other documents may supersede this document. A list of current W3C publications and the latest revision of this technical report can be found in the W3C technical reports index.

This document was published by the Cognitive and Learning Disabilities Accessibility (COGA) Task Force, the Accessible Platform Architectures (APA) Working Group, and the Accessibility Guidelines Working Group as an Editor's Draft.

Publication as an Editor's Draft does not imply endorsement by the W3C Membership. This is a draft document and may be updated, replaced or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to cite this document as other than work in progress.

Editor's note: Early draft
This is an early draft. The COGA Task Force intends to add more research and discussion, and make editorial changes to comply with our style guide, including for citations. Please share your feedback, including any research we should consider adding to this document.

Feedback on any aspect of the document is welcome. The APA and AG working groups particularly seek feedback on the following questions:

• Are issues for the included user groups well covered?
• Does the issue paper effectively bridge the gap between research and priorities for new work?
• Should additional user groups be addressed?
• Are there any more research papers we should consider adding to this document?

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[tamsinewing555]

There is inconsistency in the term used in the text when referring to these documents. Sometimes it is 'module', sometimes it is 'issue paper' or 'paper'. I propose using 'module' because 'Research Modules' is in each document title.

[tamsinewing555]

@lseeman - I've finished the review of the abstracts, SoTDs and introductions of the 4 documents and have made some suggested changes. I hope this is helpful. Please let me know if you have any questions.

[lseeman]

Hi @tamsinewing555
Thanks so much for the review. I find github hard to track, and just saw this now!
I got rid of the double SoTD sections. ,
inconsistency in the term, issue paper
feedback email links look fine
In the meen time we have done some editorial reviews so I am not sure what is still needed. (As someone without a visual emory I find the compare feature in github almost useless)
trying to resolve conflicts but I will need help for that. Are any of them show stopers, that should stop us getting to a first working draft?
In the meen time we have done some editorial reviews so I am not sure what is still needed. However we have done a task forces CFC and had a review by the chairs etc for their CFC. Is there anything left we need to stop the CFC for? If not we can look at this some more for the next version. It will still go though some changes by Roy for the W3C process.

With coga we need to work a bit differently in github. please be intouch if u want to do more edits (by email)

[ruoxiran]

this section will be genertated automaticly when I change the status of document, I will double check when I publish documents, we can ignore those changes, I will take care of them.

[ruoxiran]

Hi all, I just resolved conflicts, I noticed conflicts are main two things, one is about status of this section(sotd), I suggest please leave this section to me, because this section will change when I publish and transition, I will take care of this section. please ignore this section at this stage. the second conflict is about the reference, I think double[[]] are right format, please correct me if you want something else, please review my commit in a96c21f