- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 15:15:09 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Jan Richards <jan.richards@utoronto.ca>
- cc: WAI AU Guidelines <w3c-wai-au@w3.org>
Fair enough chaals On Wed, 30 May 2001, Jan Richards wrote: They are close, but not that close. The 6.1 minimum addresses documentation of the features of a tool that benefit accessibility, whereas the 4.2 minimum is about explaining the accessibility errors found by the checker and then explaining how to fix them (which may or may not involve using special accessibility features of the tool). Example: An image input dialog has an "alt" field. 6.1 documentation might say=> The image dialog has an "alt" field for the required alt text. 4.2 documentation might say=> Missing alt text: Open the image dialog and write a short description of the image in the "alt" field. If the image is serving as a bullet then use the word "bullet", .... etc. -- Charles McCathieNevile http://www.w3.org/People/Charles phone: +61 409 134 136 W3C Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI fax: +1 617 258 5999 Location: 21 Mitchell street FOOTSCRAY Vic 3011, Australia (or W3C INRIA, Route des Lucioles, BP 93, 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France)
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