WAI IG Call For Review: USER AGENT ACCESSIBILITY GUIDELINES

WAI IG CALL FOR REVIEW: 
"User Agent Accessibility Guidelines" Working Draft and Techniques draft

The User Agent Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (UAWG) has prepared a
Working Draft which they would like the WAI Interest Group to review before
publishing on the W3C Technical Reports page. 

Please review the draft dated July 16, 1999 at
<http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/WAI-USERAGENT-19990716/> and the Techniques
document at <http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/WAI-USERAGENT-TECHS/>.

Comments are due by Tuesday, August 10, 1999. This message may be
circulated to parties you believe have an interest in reviewing this draft.
Details follow.
         
TIMELINE FOR WAI IG REVIEW:
Please send comments by close of business US Eastern Standard Time,
Tuesday, August 10, 1999, at the latest.  
         
WHERE TO SEND COMMENTS:
Send comments to the <w3c-wai-ua@w3.org> list. The UAWG mailing list is
archived at <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ua> if you want to
view the discussion.
     
CHANGES:
There have been a number of important changes since the 31 March draft of
the document. The list of changes to the document is available at
<http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/wai-ua-wd-changes>. The working groups expects
that this is the last working draft before the "last call" draft.

REVIEW QUESTIONS:
Please address the following questions in reviewing this draft. Other
feedback is also welcome.

1. Do you agree with the priorities listed for the checkpoints?
2. The current draft has sub-groups of checkpoints for dependent and
independent user agents. Are these groups sufficient? Are more required?
3. Do you have any suggestions for reducing the number of checkpoints in
Guideline 9? Please refer also to the proposal at
<http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ua/1999JulSep/0036.html>.
4. Are the dependencies with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
("until user agents..." etc.) appropriately reflected here?
5. Any unclear terms?
6. Any redundant or missing checkpoints?
7. Any recommendations for additional techniques for the Techniques document?

QUESTIONS?
Contact the Chair of the group, Jon Gunderson <jongund@staff.uiuc.edu>, the
W3C Team Contact, Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>, or WAI Domain Leader Judy Brewer
<jbrewer@w3.org>.

Thanks,

Judy

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Judy Brewer    jbrewer@w3.org    +1.617.258.9741    http://www.w3.org/WAI
Director,Web Accessibility Initiative(WAI), World Wide Web Consortium(W3C)

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