Re: NAVBAR and WCAG checkpoint 13.6, "Group related links...."

On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:13:02 +0200, Alan Chuter <achuter@technosite.es>  
wrote:

> On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, Charles McCathieNevile wrote:
>> [NAVBAR] Provide only minimal navigation at the top of the page
>>
>> CMN It also goes some of the way to providing the functionality  
>> required by 13.6 Group related links, identify the group (for user  
>> agents), and, until user agents do so, provide a way to bypass the  
>> group. (Having the group at the bottom makes it easy to bypass by not  
>> going there.
>
> I've incorporated the idea into the text like this:
>
> Does it give me WCAG 1.0 compliance?: This BP deals with an aspect not  
> considered in  WCAG 1.0. However, explicitly identifying the navigation  
> in the page will ultimately help understand and provide the  
> functionality needed to comply with 13.5, “Provide navigation bars to  
> highlight and give access to the navigation mechanism” and 13.6, “Group  
> related links, identify the group (for user agents), and, until user  
> agents do so, provide a way to bypass the group”.
>
> http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/BPWG/Group/TaskForces/Accessibility/drafts/ED-mwbp-wcag-20071017#NAVBAR

I disagree that this is not considered in WCAG 1.0 (although it may not be  
clearly expressed there). I am pretty sure that some time back in the 90s  
this was even mentioned explicitly as a technique for meeting that  
checkpont. I think we should say so here. (As a general point, this  
document should be offered to WCAG as feedback for techniques on the off  
chance that they ever finish or drop WCAG 2 and get down to actually  
explaining the techniques that can be applied to making the web  
accesible...)

But the rest of it looks good.

Cheers

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