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Re: Keyboard navigation and IFrame usage in mashups

From: Gregory J. Rosmaita <unagi69@concentric.net>
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 12:48:37 -0400 (EDT)
To: Richard Schwerdtfeger <schwer@us.ibm.com>, <wai-xtech@w3.org>, <oedipus@hicom.net>
Message-Id: <20070624164837.23FC42067@victory.cnc.net>

aloha, again!

it's customary, i know to check URIs cited in email, but sheepdip happens...

the links to the IFrame tests (part of a UAAG 1.0 proposed test suite),
can be found at:

http://www.hicom.net/~oedipus/wai/ua/tests/iframe1.html

for those of you interested in the other test pages:

http://www.hicom.net/~oedipus/wai/ua/tests/

notice, as well, that the guideline covering IFrame is a Priority 1 checkpoint (UAAG 9.1)

http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/UAAG10/guidelines.html#gl-navigation

gregory.

---- Gregory J. Rosmaita <unagi69@unagi69.cnc.net> wrote:
> aloha, rich!
> 
> i couldn't agree with you more -- there are those who have expressed the 
> wish of replacing complex illustrations with the contents of the 
> LONGDESC in an IFrame, so that the user needn't navigate away from the 
> main document, and the complex illustration can be perused (or ignored, 
> user's choice, of course) via the IFrame...
> 
> i have some IFrame test pages from the days of UAAG 1.0's CR days:
> 
> http://www.hicom.net/~oedipus/temp/w3c/ua/
> 
> NB: many assisstive technologies - JAWS being one of them - allows the 
> user to choose to ignore IFrames on a page.  Charles, how does FireVox 
> handle IFrame?

-- 
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  -- Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack
-- 
Gregory J. Rosmaita, unagi69@concentric.net
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