- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 15:49:55 -0500 (EST)
- To: Jon Gunderson <jongund@staff.uiuc.edu>
- cc: WAI UA group <w3c-wai-ua@w3.org>
Yes, I recall the topic being discussed there. My personal preference for faster cycling of the draft process is in part because it enables such things to be reflected before they are forgotten. Somehow or other we need to find a way of keeping track of these things - not just in UA but in the various working groups. Memory is good, but not very easily shared... Charles On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, Jon Gunderson wrote: Ian found a reference to this issue in the Dec F2F meeting in Boston, basically that links, longdescriptions and form controls should be though to be part of the same sequential access control. Jon At 02:05 PM 3/5/99 -0500, Charles McCathieNevile wrote: >In splitting the checkpoints to individual tasks, I think they were split >too far. Where we would like the ability to navigate among links, form >controls, table cells, headers, and elements with associated event >triggers, we have instead asked for half a dozen different navigation >sets. > >What we should say is something like: >provide all functions device-independently [p1] >provide ability to navigate among focussable objects. [p1] > >focussable objects are >links [p1] >form controls [p1] >table cells [p1-AT, p2-gua] >headers [p2] >The nodes of a semantic outline tree [p2-AT, p3-gua] > >Or something of that kind. > >Charles McCN > >--Charles McCathieNevile mailto:charles@w3.org >phone: +1 617 258 0992 http://purl.oclc.org/net/charles >W3C Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI >MIT/LCS - 545 Technology sq., Cambridge MA, 02139, USA > Jon Gunderson, Ph.D., ATP Coordinator of Assistive Communication and Information Technology Division of Rehabilitation - Education Services University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign 1207 S. Oak Street Champaign, IL 61820 Voice: 217-244-5870 Fax: 217-333-0248 E-mail: jongund@uiuc.edu WWW: http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~jongund http://www.als.uiuc.edu/InfoTechAccess --Charles McCathieNevile mailto:charles@w3.org phone: +1 617 258 0992 http://purl.oclc.org/net/charles W3C Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI MIT/LCS - 545 Technology sq., Cambridge MA, 02139, USA
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