- From: Charles (Chuck) Oppermann <chuckop@MICROSOFT.com>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 08:13:45 -0800
- To: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>, WAI AU Guidelines <w3c-wai-au@w3.org>
What is "accessible markup"? It needs to be spelled out. For example, is <ABBR> accessible markup? A list of immutable tags and attributes should be provided. -----Original Message----- From: Charles McCathieNevile [mailto:charles@w3.org] Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 1998 8:19 PM To: WAI AU Guidelines Subject: Conversion by non HTML-specific tools The Guideline 4.4 - Ensure that conversion tools produce and retain accessible markup and content is essentially restating techniques from other guidelines. If we beefed up the current technique 4.1.1 to mention conversion tools as a specific example, then the declaration of scope which is currently in the Introduction makes it clear that the guidelines apply to such tools. (Conversion tools allow the user to save a file as HTML although that is not the usual format of their input files. This covers both desktop publishing packages which can save as HTML, and translation tools which convert between formats, such as PDF to HTML conversion tools) --Charles McCathieNevile W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (visiting) email: charles@w3.org telephone: +1 (617) 258 8143 mail: LCS, 545 Technology sq., Cambridge MA, USA http://purl.oclc.org/net/charles
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