Summary of work needed to complete Guideline 2.4 for the Last Call draft.


Guideline / Success Criterion
Category 1 Issues
Sufficient Techniques Completed?
Tests completed for sufficient techniques?
Suggested Techniques to develop (including tests)
Guideline 2.4




2.4.1
  1. 1563 - misleading examples for definition of navigational features
  2. 1646 - SC is redundant

No?

No general techniques. Draft versions of 4 of the 5 HTML techniques should be reviewed.

  1. Using headings
  2. Grouping links
  3. Using the link element and navigation tools
  4. Skipping link groups

 

No
  • Using technology-specific techniques to programmatically expose common navigational features.

  • Using technology-specific techniques to programmatically expose common navigational features by using techniques from success criterion 1.3.1.

  • Using "a" for links.
2.4.2
  1. 1647 - no requirement for a way to find info in delivery unit
  2. 1708 - change SC to use "without invalidating the activity"
  3. 1741 - what if one method is sufficient?
  4. 1825 - add "page" to SC, (see also 1770 )

3 draft techniques available, 3 missing. Need to be reviewed and converted to standard format.



No.
 
2.4.3
  1. 1214 - make level 1 to harmonize with Section 508
  2. 1830 - remove technique to structure content so main content comes first
  3. 1831 - require skip links to be visible

No. At least one of the techniques for skipping blocks of repeated material is needed.

It looks like there are drafts of techniques from a previous version that could be useful here.

Draft HTML Techniques

  1. Skipping link groups
  2. Using headings
  3. Grouping links
  4. Using the title attribute of the frame element
No

  1. Adding a link at the top of each page that goes directly to the main content area.
2.4.4
 

Yes? (general technique just refers to technology-specific techniques.)

Draft HTML techniques:

  1. The title element
  2. Using the title attribute of the frame element


2.4.5
  1. 1649 - define programmatic reference
  2. 1812 - how closely is the association?
Yes? Two of the general techniques are "Using technology-specific techniques, ...". Do we have a "standard" explanation of such techniques? We are still missing the first general technique.
  • Using technology-specific techniques to associate the description of a delivery unit with its reference.

  • Using technology-specific techniques to provide a supplemental description of a delivery unit.


Draft HTML techniques

  1. Providing useful link text
  2. Providing alternate text for images used as links
  3. Combining adjacent image and text links that point to the same resource
  4. Providing alternative text for the area element
  5. Supplementing link text with the title attribute
  6. Using the title attribute of the frame element
  7. Providing a meaningful name to identify frames
  8. Providing alternative text for the area element
No
  1. Describing the delivery unit in text that immediately precedes the programmatic reference.
2.4.6
  1. 1769 - add "label" to SC

No.

Of use:

  1. Writing titles and headings that are descriptive
  2. Repeated section headings in a delivery unit
No
  1. Writing titles and headings that are descriptive and using technology-specific techniques from GL 1.3.1 to identify titles and headings.
2.4.7
  1. 1770 - remove reference to "page" in SC (see also 1825 )

No.

Draft HTML techniques

  1. Creating a logical tab order through links, form controls, and objects
  2. Absolute positioning based on structural markup

Of use?

  1. Including meaning-critical sequences in the programmatically determined reading order


No
  1. Giving focus to elements in an order that follows sequences and relationships within the content.
2.4.8
 

Draft techniques need review and to be converted to standard format:

  1. Providing a breadcrumb trail
  2. Using a Site Map

HTML Techniques

  1. Using the link element and navigation tools

CSS Techniques

  1. Absolute positioning based on structural markup

 

No