- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 18:45:13 -0500 (EST)
- To: William Loughborough <love26@gorge.net>
- cc: "w3c-wai-au@w3.org" <w3c-wai-au@w3.org>
Although I feel that guidelines should not ahve priorities, since they all express things which need to be done to make the tools accessible, I think the usability of the guidelines is enhanced by prioritised checkpoints. There are some features which I think are important but not essential. I think there are other featuers which are good, but are not actually important for accessibility. I don't want those things to disappear from the document, but I could not support the argument that a registry of alt text (for example) was crucial to accessibility in the same way as I could support an argument that including ALT text with imgaes is crucial for accessibility. I do think that we need to clearly identify the problems which are caused, and that we should use a priority definition strictly rather than be overly concerned about the statistical balance of priorities. Cheers Charles McCN On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, William Loughborough wrote: Although I don't care much about what sequence is used to refer to the accessibility of the content and the tool, I do think all priorities should be stripped. We are down to few enough now that to rank them diminishes some needlessly. If we find any excuse for downgrading some checkpoints we can but I don't want to. The whole thing is a *top priority* and one person's "can't use without" is another's "that would be nice". I still propose 3.1.3 to emphasize that just a text view is not enough and that the "structure tree" is important to authoring and not just to navigating. In Amaya, if I'm not mistaken it is possible to do certain editing functions directly from the structure view? -- Love. ACCESSIBILITY IS RIGHT - NOT PRIVILEGE http://dicomp.pair.com --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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