- From: Jutta Treviranus <jutta.treviranus@utoronto.ca>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 10:45:14 -0500
- To: w3c-wai-au@w3.org
The following are the minutes for the November 11, Conference Call. Present: Charles McCathie Neville, William L., Jan Richards, Karen McCall, Ian Jacobs, Lauren Wood, Jim Allen, Jutta Treviranus 1. Lauren Wood of SoftQuad gave her perspective on the Guidelines from the point of view of a developer. She felt that some guidelines were too draconian, not giving developers the flexibility to position their tool competitively ( 3.4.3 and 6.6.2). This would put developers who adopt the guidelines at a competitive disadvantage. Other guidelines were too broad and required further detail (ie, 5.5.3 & 6.4.1). She also felt that guideline 4.3 was patronizing and suggested that the wording be changed. 2. Chuck Opperman did not join the conference call to clarify his concerns. 3. The previously posted, suggested wording on placeholder and default alt-text was accepted by the group: Automatic generation of Alt Text: * Tools should only generate Alt text when they are absolutly sure of the meaning (bullets for example) * If a tool does generate Alt text then the tool should inform the user and allow the user to change it. Place-holder Alt text: * Tools must not generate place-holder Alt text (ever). * Tools can generate a comment line close to the missing Alt text as a reminder - (example <! put Alt text here>) * Tools should not generate NULL Alt text (Alt=""). (Anything inserted into a document has a meaning.) 4. Based upon input from Judy Brewer it was decided that User Interface accessibility would stay in. The document would refer to the UA guidelines but may incorporate the relevant UA guidelines in the next draft. 5. Ian presented his perspective on techniques: techniques being recommended or required actions that can be checked off by a developer as being complete. In other groups the techniques are maintained in a seperate document. The rationale being that techniques would change more rapidly than guidelines. It was decided that the techniques would remain integrated with the guidelines and would be linked to examples. 6. The public working draft would be released Nov. 12, incorporating the agreed upon revisions.
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