Request for quick feedback to WAI EOWG

WAI Page Author Guidelines Working Group:

You're invited to take a quick look at a WAI EO reference piece. For the
pilot version, we need feedback by Monday noon, Nov 9, US EST. It is
appended in text. If you want to see the Word mock-up, e-mail me. It's a
large file.

The WAI Education & Outreach Working Group (EOWG) has been working on a
"quick-tips" mini reference card for accessible page authoring. The idea is
to put very concise rendering of some high-priority guidelines onto a
business card, both sides, so that people can carry a reminder around. The
tag line at the end gives people the URL for /WAI for the "complete" Page
Author Guidelines & Techniques. 

WAI EOWG would like to print a pilot/test run of these early next week, for
distribution & feedback from W3C Member organizations at an upcoming meeting.

We would like your feedback on the language on the card before it goes to a
pilot run.

	Do you like this? - why?

	Not like this? - why?

	Fear it will be misunderstood? - how?

	Fear it will be misused? - how?

Comments please to w3c-wai-eo@w3.org. For more info on WAI EOWG work, go to
http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO.

Thank you,

Judy

[text of card]

[W3C logo]                           [WAI logo]
Quick tips for making your site accessible to people 
with disabilities & users of mobile or slow Web devices
1	Images, photographs & animations  Concisely describe the pur-pose or
con-tent of all visuals. Use the alt attribute.
2	Page organization  A consistent page layout helps people with visual and
learning disabilities. Use head-ings, lists and table summaries to make
pages easy to scan.
3	Imagemaps  Many people cannot use a mouse. Use the MAP element to provide
imagemap hotspot text anchors.
4	Hypertext links  Descriptive link text improves access for those who
cannot see. Ensure that each link makes sense when read alone.
5	Graphs & charts  Summarize content or use the longdesc attribute.
 6	Audio  For people who cannot hear audio content, provide captions or
transcripts.
7	Video  Provide text or audio descriptions of video content. 
8	Frames  Some Web technologies cannot render frames. Label each frame with
title or name, and include a linear version of its content within the
NOFRAMES element.
9	Tables  Some Web technologies have trouble reading tables. Avoid using
tables to format text columns. Use the headers, scope and abbr attributes
to mark-up complex tabular information.
10	Evaluate accessibility  View your site with different browsers; switch
off graphics, sounds and animations; navigate via keyboard; use a
monochrome monitor; use automated analysis tools.

See www.w3.org/WAI for complete Page Author Guidelines & techniques

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Judy Brewer    jbrewer@w3.org    +1.617.258.9741    http://www.w3.org/WAI
Director, Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) International Program Office
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
MIT/LCS Room NE43-355, 545 Technology Square, Cambridge, MA,  02139,  USA

Received on Thursday, 5 November 1998 21:21:34 UTC