- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 14:07:13 -0400 (EDT)
- To: WAI AU Guidelines <w3c-wai-au@w3.org>
I have been in Grenoble the last couple of days working with the Amaya team (w3c's testbed browser/editor) on what needs to be done to implement the guidelines as they are currently. It was a pretty useful experience. There were a couple of guidelines which it was not rapidly obvious how they could be implemented, and for the Amaya team perhaps the biggest barrier to compliance is 1.1 - the program was not designed to be accessible, so it is going to take a bit of retro-fitting. However although meeting the requirements will require some work, it is clear that it can be done even by a small team who are at the same time being called on to implement every new technology of the w3c as a proof of concept. The checkpoint which seemed most difficult to understand in terms of how it needed to be implemented was 4.2, and I will ahve a bit of a think about it over the weekend. Most of the others seemed to be pretty straightforward without resorting to the techniques document. Amaya has a user interface which is in some cases very different from the widespread tools, so in some cases the techniques used are quite interesting. I will attempt to write up the techniques currently used or proposed over the weekend where they are new ideas. Charles --Charles McCathieNevile mailto:charles@w3.org phone: +1 617 258 0992 http://www.w3.org/People/Charles W3C Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI MIT/LCS - 545 Technology sq., Cambridge MA, 02139, USA
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