Re: [techs] Summary of Techniques teleconferences 13 August 2003

> We continued reviewing the HTML techniques, using the draft at [1].
> Continuing with links, we discussed tabindex and accesskey, which need some
> user agent testing to help resolve questions. Links that open in new windows
> unexpectedly continues to be a problem, although we hope to deprecate the
> technique when user agent notification of such links improves.

Unlikely to happen soon. iCab changes its cursor (hand gains a
superimposed plus sign), but that is the only device of any kind I know of
that warns you in advance.

> The
> relationship of d-links to longdesc was also thorny given current user agent
> support; and we noted problems with d-links. We will propose adjustments to
> these techniques on the basis of the discussion.

One hopes that any discussion of D-links will be eliminated. longdesc is
the correct mechanism for long description of <img>. Try someone's
photo-album page with D-links sometime. It was never a good idea. We have
way more important things to worry about.

> * Wendy: Look at browser that has "accesskey mode"

iCab displays accesskeys. I see that has not been much discussed on this
list. iCab is not much of a browser due to its poor CSS support, but it
has some nice interface features.

<http://joeclark.org/book/sashay/serialization/Chapter08.html?GL#h3-4710>

> * Ben: Test user agent support for alternative content for OBJECT
> * Ben: Test UA support for OBJECT element

<http://www.student.oulu.fi/~sairwas/html40support/object/>

Cf. Zeldman, _Designing with Web Standards, pp. 291-296.
<http://zeldman.com/dwws/>.

> * Michael: Create Long description techniques

No need to reinvent the wheel. A common WAI habit-- ignoring the prior
art.

<http://joeclark.org/book/sashay/serialization/Chapter06.html?GL#h2-2290>

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  Author, _Building Accessible Websites_
  <http://joeclark.org/access/> | <http://joeclark.org/book/>

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