- From: Christophe Strobbe <christophe.strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be>
- Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2006 11:49:25 +0200
- To: public-wcag-teamc@w3.org
At 14:01 5/06/2006, Becky Gibson wrote: >Comments 629-632 [1],are suggesting that since the Dynamic Web >Accessibility specifications[2] provides a mechanism to specify more >meta-data about elements (roles, states, values, relationships, etc), that >all of 2.5 success criteria should be updated to include programmatically >determined. > > >While I agree that Dynamic Web Accessibility addresses the concerns, this >is not yet a mainstream technology. I am concerned that adding in >programmatically determined provides a loophole for web authors to add >information even though it may not yet be well supported. Isn't support a baseline issue? If it isn't well supported, it is unreasonable to put it in the baseline, which means that you can't use techniques that rely on it. So I don't understand what the loophole could be. >The only real issue I see is with 2.5.1 - describing the error to the user >in text. I can see that an assistive technology could infer certain >errors (such as values that exceed a specified maximum value) and present >them to the user. But, I still think that there are other classes of >error that can not be determined from the role and state information. I'm >not sure of a way to reword the SC to allow for some types of errors and >not others. Roles in XHTML are not the only example that supports Lisa's case: XForms has a range element with start, end and step attributes, so min and max values can be programmatically determined. Regards, Christophe >(...) > >[1] issues are sequential beginning at: >http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WCAG20/issue-tracking/viewdata_all.php#629 > >Becky Gibson >Web Accessibility Architect > >IBM Emerging Internet Technologies >5 Technology Park Drive >Westford, MA 01886 >Voice: 978 399-6101; t/l 333-6101 >Email: gibsonb@us.ibm.com -- Christophe Strobbe K.U.Leuven - Departement of Electrical Engineering - Research Group on Document Architectures Kasteelpark Arenberg 10 - 3001 Leuven-Heverlee - BELGIUM tel: +32 16 32 85 51 http://www.docarch.be/ Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm
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