- From: Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 19:39:17 -0500
- To: Takuya ASADA <asada@w3.mag.keio.ac.jp>
- CC: w3c-wai-ua@w3.org, mimasa@w3.org
Takuya ASADA wrote: > > Sorry for my late reply. I sent my email to wrong addres... > > In my opinion, this guidline is too ideal for mobile browsers, > and many checkpoints are strongly oriented some graphical > browsers on desktop PC. Mobile browsers vendors should make > effort to satisfy some checkpoints, but many of them are > impossible, or not proper for mobile browsers. > > I think it's better to describe how mobile (or other some kind > of) browsers treat this guideline. Hi Takuya, Thank you for taking time to review the Guidelines. We have discussed recently clarifying (for example in the Abstract) that the Guidelines are primarily intended for graphical desktop browsers. Mobile devices can still conform, however. There is an important provision in the document that says that some checkpoints don't "apply" under certain conditions. It would be very useful to the Working Group if you listed the checkpoints you felt did not really apply for mobile devices. Of course, we hope that developers of user agents on mobile devices wish to make their software accessible and the principles in the Guidelines are meant to apply to most user agents. If a user agent developer finds that most checkpoints don't apply, then they can still conform, but the claim would be less meaningful if, for example, more than half of the checkpoints didn't apply. Any comments you have on improving the document or how some changes might make the document easier to use by mobile device developers, please send them to this list. Thank you again, - Ian -- Ian Jacobs (jacobs@w3.org) http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs Tel/Fax: +1 212 684-1814 Cell: +1 917 450-8783
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