Re: WCAG 2.0 Comment Submission

On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 6:48 PM, <noreply@w3.org> wrote:

> Name: David MacDonald
> Email: DavidMacDonald100@gmail.com
> Affiliation: WCAG team member
> Document: TD
> Item Number: H80
> Part of Item: Applicability
> Comment Type: general comment
> Summary of Issue:
> Comment (Including rationale for any proposed change):
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/NOTE-WCAG20-TECHS-20120103/H80
> Unfortuatly there is no way that I know of to read the previous heading
> while keeping the focus on the link. The keystroke listed here "JAWS KEY
> +"T" actually just reads the Title element of the page. The list of JAWS
> keys I think confirms that.
>
> http://www.freedomscientific.com/doccenter/archives/training/JAWSKeystrokes.htm
>
> Proposed Change:
> I think we have to remove H30 from the list of sufficient techniques...
> it's a mistake, as far as I can see.
>
> ================================
Response from the Working Group
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Thank you.

We are making this an advisory technique until such time as there is
sufficient Accessibility Support for it to warrant listing it as a
sufficient technique.

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

Received on Monday, 29 October 2012 22:41:21 UTC