Re: WCAG Team A - Kickoff

Hi to all,
it would be perfect form me if we plan meetings at 1.00 pm (EST-NY time), anyway before thist time it would be a problem for me (in Italy when in NY it's 1.00 pm it's 7.00 pm and before that time I'm usually in office..).
Cheers
Best regards

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Gez Lemon <gez.lemon@gmail.com>
Date:  Sun, 4 Sep 2005 16:48:34 +0100

>
>Hi all,
>
>> 3. If there are any additional tests that would relate to techniques for
>> this, please post them.   Again, posting them is great.  Posting them in
>> the form of the templates is superb.
>
>I've created three techniques [1], which I think apply to this
>guideline. I don't have a copy of Word at home, so I've no idea at the
>moment what the template looks like. I've tried to create techniques
>that may be considered good practice, although there may be problems
>with all of the techniques. All techniques cause a change in context
>that may not be noticed, although they could all theoretically be
>programatically determined.
>
>Chunking Information [2]
>I thought this may be a good example, as it's an accessibility
>technique aimed at people with cognitive difficulties. The change in
>context is user initiated, but the link-phrase changes depending on
>the context, which may not be noticed by the user.
>
>Validating Forms [3]
>The technique I've used is to provide a block of information regarding
>whether or not the fields have been filled out correctly. If there are
>errors in the submission, a warning is provided above the form giving
>a list of errors, with links to the appropriate form field.
>
>Changing Context [4]
>The final example displays a text box depending on an option chosen
>from a drop-down list. The current technique refers to auto submit
>combo boxes, which is a severe change in context. The technique I've
>used causes a more subtle change of context, but presumably still
>violates level 2 success criteria 3 for this guideline?
>
>> Final thing is that we need to find a time to meet. I would like
>> everybody to post to the list 2 things.
>> 
>> 1. The times of day using the EASTERN United States time zone that
>> work for you.  We will try to find a time that works in everybody's
>> availability band.
>
>I'll need to ask my employer if I can make calls during work-time. If
>they allow me, then any time and any day would be fine for me. If they
>won't, and it's likely that they won't as they're a small company with
>no interest in accessibility or standards (which I'm trying to
>change), then 2pm (EST) onwards would be good for me as I would be
>home from work by then.
>
>Best regards,
>
>Gez
>
>[1] http://juicystudio.com/wcag/
>[2] http://juicystudio.com/wcag/chunking.html
>[3] http://juicystudio.com/wcag/validation.html
>[4] http://juicystudio.com/wcag/changecontext.html
>
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Sebastiano Nutarelli 
IWA/HWG Member 
W3C WCAG Working Group Member 
E-mail: snutarelli@webaccessibile.org
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