RE: WCAG A11Y DPUB techniques

I am in agreement with Steve Jobs; Flash should not be allowed. I understand
that it is technically possible to make it accessible, and I think I saw one
at some point that I could use. However, my experience is that it is mostly
inaccessible.
 
My $.02
 
Best
George
 
 
From: Charles LaPierre [mailto:charlesl@benetech.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2015 8:14 AM
To: George Kerscher
Cc: public-dpub-accessibility@w3.org
Subject: Re: WCAG A11Y DPUB techniques
 
Hi George, we assigned Flash to Livio, who thought they were all relevant
but you think we shouldn’t bother with Flash for DPUB at all?  Don’t you
think some publishers may want to publish some Flash content in their
web-based publication? 

_______________________________
 
Charles LaPierre
charlesl@benetech.org
 
 
 
On Mar 25, 2015, at 6:52 AM, George Kerscher <kerscher@montana.com> wrote:
 
Hi,
 
I must have missed the call where flash was discussed. I would put this in
the same camp as silverlight; I would say it is not allowed.
 
Best
George
 
 
From: Charles LaPierre [mailto:charlesl@benetech.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2015 7:36 AM
To: public-dpub-accessibility@w3.org
Subject: WCAG A11Y DPUB techniques
 
Hello DPUB Accessibility TF,
 
For the past few months we have gone through the WCAG Techniques looking to
see what was relevant to DPUB.  Here is a summary of what we found so far.
We need to discuss the items that we feel are not required for DPUB and
those we still had questions about so we can determine if they are relevant
or not to DPUB.  Hopefully we can discuss these at our next meeting.  I will
send out a reminder and hopefully a new time slot for this Friday if we can
get the phone system switched over in time to host our call.
 
Here are the WCAG techniques and what we feel are relevant to DPUB.
 
WCAG A11Y DPUB ARIA Techniques
All Relevant
 
 
WCAG A11Y DPUB Flash Techniques
All Relevant
 
 
WCAG A11Y DPUB Plain Text Techniques
All Relevant
 
WCAG A11Y DPUB SMIL Techniques
All Relevant
 
WCAG A11Y DPUB Common Failures
All Relevant
 
 
A11Y DPUB Techniques (THIS IS NEW)
Possibly Additions

Page Numbers

Drop Caps

Notes (Footnotes, Asides, Author Notes, etc.)

positional location of text to indicate different speakers,

phonetic spellings of proper nouns (maybe indi work in w3c?)

how does layout improve comprehension?
*More work is needed here to flesh out missing WCAG techniques relevant to
DPUB.
 
 
WCAG A11Y DPUB Silverlight Techniques
All Not Relevant (Silverlight has begun End Of Life)
 
 
WCAG A11Y DPUB General - Technique Development Assignments
Not Required

G1: Adding a link at the top of each page that goes directly to the main
content area

G9: Creating captions for live synchronized media

G63: Providing a site map

G71: Providing a help link on every Web page

G157: Incorporating a live audio captioning service into a Web page

G174: Providing a control with a sufficient contrast ratio that allows users
to switch to a presentation that uses sufficient contrast

G175: Providing a multi color selection tool on the page for foreground and
background colors

G178: Providing controls on the Web page that allow users to incrementally
change the size of all text on the page up to 200 percent

G180: Providing the user with a means to set the time limit to 10 times the
default time limit

G181: Encoding user data as hidden or encrypted data in a re-authorization
page

G185: Linking to all of the pages on the site from the home page

G188: Providing a button on the page to increase line spaces and paragraph
spaces

G189: Providing a control near the beginning of the Web page that changes
the link text

G200: Opening new windows and tabs from a link only when necessary

G201: Giving users advanced warning when opening a new window
 
Not Sure

G177: Providing suggested correction text

G179: Ensuring that there is no loss of content or functionality when the
text resizes and text containers do not change their width
 

G133: Providing a checkbox on the first page of a multipart form that allows
users to ask for longer session time limit or no session time limit

G139: Creating a mechanism that allows users to jump to errors

G143: Providing a text alternative that describes the purpose of the CAPTCHA

G144: Ensuring that the Web Page contains another CAPTCHA serving the same
purpose using a different modality

G155: Providing a checkbox in addition to a submit button

G164: Providing a stated time within which an online request (or
transaction) may be amended or canceled by the user after making the request
 
 
WCAG A11Y DPUB HTML Techniques
Not Sure

H35: Providing text alternatives on applet elements

H84: Using a button with a select element to perform an action

H85: Using OPTGROUP to group OPTION elements inside a SELECT

H89: Using the title attribute to provide context-sensitive help

H93: Ensuring that id attributes are unique on a Web page
 

H86: Providing text alternatives for ASCII art, emoticons, and leetspeak

H91: Using HTML form controls and links
 
 
 
WCAG A11Y DPUB CSS Techniques
Not Relevant

C9: Using CSS to include decorative images

C28: Specifying the size of text containers using em units

C29: Using a style switcher to provide a conforming alternate version
 
Not Relevant but this is a powerful customization that is constantly being
used on the web.
 

C15: Using CSS to change the presentation of a user interface component when
it receives focus
 
Not Sure

C7: Using CSS to hide a portion of the link text

C12: Using percent for font sizes

C22: Using CSS to control visual presentation of text

C23: Specifying text and background colors of secondary content such as
banners, features and navigation in CSS while not specifying text and
background colors of the main content

C26: Providing options within the content to switch to a layout that does
not require the user to scroll horizontally to read a line of text

C30: Using CSS to replace text with images of text and providing user
interface controls to switch

C14: Using em units for font sizes
 
 
WCAG A11Y DPUB PDF Techniques
Not Relevant

PDF7: Performing OCR on a scanned PDF document to provide actual text
 
 
WCAG A11Y DPUB Server-Side Scripting Techniques
Not Sure

SVR1: Implementing automatic redirects on the server side instead of on the
client side

SVR2: Using .htaccess to ensure that the only way to access non-conforming
content is from conforming content

SVR3: Using HTTP referer to ensure that the only way to access
non-conforming content is from conforming content

SVR4: Allowing users to provide preferences for the display of conforming
alternate versions

SVR5: Specifying the default language in the HTTP header
 
 
WCAG A11Y DPUB Client-side Scripting Techniques
Not Relevant

SCR24: Using progressive enhancement to open new windows on user request

SCR28: Using an expandable and collapsible menu to bypass block of content

SCR30: Using scripts to change the link text
 
Not Sure
 

SCR29: Adding keyboard-accessible actions to static HTML elements
 

SCR1: Allowing the user to extend the default time limit

SCR14: Using scripts to make nonessential alerts optional

SCR18: Providing client-side validation and alert

SCR21: Using functions of the Document Object Model (DOM) to add content to
a page

SCR22: Using scripts to control blinking and stop it in five seconds or less

SCR31: Using script to change the background color or border of the element
with focus

SCR32: Providing client-side validation and adding error text via the DOM

SCR33: Using script to scroll content, and providing a mechanism to pause it

SCR35: Making actions keyboard accessible by using the onclick event of
anchors and buttons

SCR36: Providing a mechanism to allow users to display moving, scrolling, or
auto-updating text in a static window or area

SCR37: Creating Custom Dialogs in a Device Independent Way

SCR27: Reordering page sections using the Document Object Model
 
Thanks.

_______________________________
 
Charles LaPierre
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