- From: Loretta Guarino Reid <lorettaguarino@google.com>
- Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2007 22:01:50 -0700
- To: "Mike Sullivan" <mike.sullivan2@qwest.com>
- Cc: public-comments-WCAG20@w3.org
Dear Mike Sullivan, Thank you for your comments on the 17 May 2007 Public Working Draft of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 (WCAG 2.0 http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-WCAG20-20070517/). The WCAG Working Group has reviewed all comments received on the May draft, and will be publishing an updated Public Working Draft shortly. Before we do that, we would like to know whether we have understood your comments correctly, and also whether you are satisfied with our resolutions. Please review our resolutions for the following comments, and reply to us by 19 November 2007 at public-comments-wcag20@w3.org to say whether you are satisfied. Note that this list is publicly archived. Note also that we are not asking for new issues, nor for an updated review of the entire document at this time. Please see below for the text of comments that you submitted and our resolutions to your comments. Each comment includes a link to the archived copy of your original comment on http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-comments-wcag20/, and may also include links to the relevant changes in the WCAG 2.0 Editor's Draft of May-October 2007 at http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WCAG20/WD-WCAG20-20071102/ Thank you for your time reviewing and sending comments. Though we cannot always do exactly what each commenter requests, all of the comments are valuable to the development of WCAG 2.0. Regards, Loretta Guarino Reid, WCAG WG Co-Chair Gregg Vanderheiden, WCAG WG Co-Chair Michael Cooper, WCAG WG Staff Contact On behalf of the WCAG Working Group ---------------------------------------------------------- Comment 1: There is no SC governing the visibility of focus Source: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-comments-wcag20/2007Jul/0238.html (Issue ID: 2358) ---------------------------- Original Comment: ---------------------------- There is currently no requirement in WCAG 2.0 Draft that the current focus be visible. While the default behavior of showing focus can and should be the responsibility of the user agent, it is possible through CSS to defeat this and have links render without the default halo or any other visual feedback. As a practical example, when examining a site that sells ring tones (http://nextelmedia.sprintpcs.com/NextelDigitalLounge/personalization.do) I found that as I tabbed through the Ringers categories (and elsewhere), there was no indication of which of the twenty-odd links was selected. This page was extremely difficult for a keyboard user to use, and yet there are no success criteria in the current draft of WCAG 2.0 by which this aspect of the page can be said to fail, even at the AAA level. (Since the functionality was technically available through the keyboard, if you kept very careful mental track of the number of times you tabbed, it passed the "2.1.1 Keyboard" success criterion.) Proposed Change: Add a success criterion similar to the 508 rule 1194.21(c): "A well-defined on-screen indication of the current focus shall be provided that moves among interactive interface elements as the input focus changes. The focus shall be programmatically exposed so that assistive technology can track focus and focus changes." --------------------------------------------- Response from Working Group: --------------------------------------------- To address the problem of the focus not being visible, we have added a new success criterion: "Focus Visible: Any keyboard operable user interface has a mode of operation where the keyboard focus indicator is visible." SC 4.1.2 already required that the state of user interface components be programmatically determined, and that changes to the state be notified. To make it explicit that this addresses focus, we have added a new failure: "Failure of SC 4.1.2 due to the focus state of a user interface component not being programmatically determinable or no notification of change of focus state available"
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