Re: AU techs / ATAG errata

Charles McCathieNevile wrote:
> 
> That seems like my proposal 2 below, since I don't believe that there is any
> way we can effectively force authors to provide meaningful text replacements.
> (Amaya requires an alt before it will insert an image, and I know that people
> who really care about accessibility from time to time use asdfasdf as the alt
> to get on with working).
>
> Leaving the accessibility error easily found is important, and I think it
> would be more likely to work if there was a missing alt (in XHTML, conforming
> browsers will stop processing and say "this page is broken" although they
> might then offer a recovery option) than trying to get some regular set of
> strings that can be detected by tools. (That isn't impossible, just takes
> more work for almost everyone). 

It's like 2 except that that message is for the INTERNAL use by the tool
(basically flagging a problem). If it isn't fixed by the end of the
editing session, the attribute must be removed. Would removing this
flagged attribute violate 2.2? i.e. does "generate" refer to creating
the markup in the tool or saving it? Or both?

JR: 3.4 could be changed (in an errata) to specify that:
    the only allowable generated text is "place holder text generated by
    [authoring tool name]", which must be replaced by human authored
text
    by the end of the document editing session.
 
>   > Charles McCathieNevile wrote:
>   > >
>   > > 2. We state in errata that 2.2 overrides 3.4 and that the checkpoint can be
>   > > ignored in order to meet 2.2. I don't think this is what we intended either -
>   > > it would lead to the addition of dummy text just to provide validity, and
>   > > there is a real need not to do so. If we do go this way we should delete
>   > > technique T0176




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Cheers,
Jan

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Jan Richards
UI Design Specialist
Adaptive Technology Resource Centre (ATRC)
University of Toronto

jan.richards@utoronto.ca
Phone: (416) 946-7060
Fax: (416) 971-2896

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Received on Friday, 7 December 2001 09:55:21 UTC