Re: Success criteria for guideline 3

If a new checkpoint 3.2 were to handle:

(1) Creating structured content,
(2) Separating information from its presentation, and
(3) Ensuring device independent control.

It might be more clear to break these topics out into three separate
checkpoints.

Cheers,
Jan


Phill Jenkins wrote:
> 

Jutta wrote:

> >I would like to also propose that we change
> >guideline 3.2 to include control method in addition to presentation,
> >ie. the content should be independent of both the presentation and
> >the method of control (e.g., keyboard, mouse, keyboard or mouse
> >emulation).
> 
> OK, except where the UA/browser maps the mouse event to the keyboard event.
> For example, onMouseClick is mapped by IE, Mozilla, etc to the enter key,
> so the enter key and/or the mouse fire the same event.  I found the issue
> that when adding a redundant device event, such as onKeyPress, two events
> get fired causing all kinds of havoc on the server.
> 
> So, it's only a few cases where this isn't handled by the UA and not the
> author/content, which is also per UAAG.
> 
> Regards,
> Phill Jenkins
> IBM Research Division - Accessibility Center
> 11501 Burnet Rd,  Austin TX  78758    http://www.ibm.com/able

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Received on Monday, 21 October 2002 09:59:39 UTC