RE: advisory tech for 2.5.1

I think we are ready to go to survey for LC 1078 on Scope. I've spent about
20 hours on it and have examined most of the issues and have spoken with
other experts in the field. There are user agent notes (which are General)
and a link to a page with specific testing with different AT, supplied by
Sailesh, Jim Thatcher and some tweaks by me and Bruce. There is also an
example of proper use in the Technique provided by Sailesh.

David MacDonald

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-----Original Message-----
From: Sofia Celic [mailto:Sofia.Celic@visionaustralia.org] 
Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2007 7:41 PM
To: David MacDonald
Cc: public-wcag-teamc@w3.org
Subject: RE: advisory tech for 2.5.1



Hi David,

I'm not saying that Javascript should be ignored. Not at all. Javascript
is an important part of the web that can vastly improve the user
experience - for both usability and accessibility. However, it needs to
be used smartly until user agents catch up with new technologies/uses
and provide effective and efficient means of their use for all users.
This may mean that backup implementations need to be in place.

<start quote>
But assuming it was, do know of anyone
who uses a custom loaded style sheet? In 10 years I've never met anyone
who
has used a custom stylesheet (besides a lab that was testing it) and I
have
asked other consultants and they've never heard of anyone using a custom
stylesheet (beside doing a test on it). Do you think this is an issue?
<end quote>

I know of people who would really like this capability. It is not
practically possible right now, on the most part.
In particular, people who are colour blind and would really like to be
able layer their own CSS on top of the author's one when links do not
have underlines. They don't want to change the author's layout or colour
scheme or anything other than links.

<start quote>
In practice I've seen the list of errors implemented quite successfully
in
banks etc...
Although I haven't seen focus automatically sent there. But if the list
of
errors are links to the corresponding fields then I think it would be
quite
a good experience for a sighted person. Because they would simple make
one
click to the next error field, and that is faster than getting there by
scrolling to the next error.
<end quote>

It is only a very specific part of the technique that I believe sighted,
mouse users would find annoying: being automatically taken back to the
list of errors when they leave the form control where they have just
fixed an error.
This could be avoided by implementing a "manual" link after the form
control instead of an automatic shift. Selecting the link, if the user
should want to, would then take the user back to the list of errors.

Sofia




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