- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 13:51:20 -0500 (EST)
- To: Jutta Treviranus <jutta.treviranus@utoronto.ca>
- cc: w3c-wai-au@w3.org
In many areas I think we can either refer to the User Agent Accessibility Guidelines, or copy the relevant sections. As far as I can see the biggest determinant there is size. The specific cases that Jutta has come up with need of course to be covered within the Authoring Tool Guidelines Charles McCN On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, Jutta Treviranus wrote: Regarding Section 4: We need to identify all of the access guidelines that are unique to authoring tools and would not be covered in the other two types of sources we listed in the introduction to section 4. In earlier discussions the following unique considerations were identified: - the existence of graphic elements or artifacts, such as graphic representations of start and end tags in the document, or web pages represented by icons in web site managers (e.g., Hyperbolic views). These would not be covered by standard interface conventions. - recognition that the author may need a different view to edit the web content than they wish it to be ultimately displayed. This implies display preferences that do not manifest themselves in the ultimate markup or style declarations - there are strategies that would make it easier to navigate and manipulate a marked up document that are distinct from navigation strategies in a browser and text manipulation strategies in a word processor - authoring tools make frequent use of third party DLLs, Beans or other modules that are bundled and linked into the main authoring product. Although the main interface may be accessible these are frequently not. - authoring tools also make frequent use of non standard pallets and dialogue boxes which are covered in some of the other guidelines but might warrant specific mention in these guidelines. Are there any areas missed in the above list? Are there any we should leave out? Jutta --Charles McCathieNevile mailto:charles@w3.org phone: +1 617 258 0992 http://purl.oclc.org/net/charles W3C Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI MIT/LCS - 545 Technology sq., Cambridge MA, 02139, USA
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