relationship between guidelines was Re: Scope of configurable settings

Hi Gregory.

One of the nice things about inheriting the Web Content Accessibility
Guidelines in the way we do is that it means that it is, for example, a P2
requirement that tables make sense when linearised.

Our guidelines rely on the Web Content Guidelines to have correctly
prioritised their requirements. This is not a bad thing - otherwise we would
all end up spending our time doing other people's work.

I do take your point, but I think that transformations, as provided by 6.6
wouldn't really solve the problem - it is reliance on guidelines 3 and 4 that
are going to prove more helpful, along with checkpoints 6.1, and 6.2.

Charles McCN


On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Gregory J. Rosmaita wrote:

  aloha, charles!
  
  i promised twice today to think twice before i posted after one a.m., but,
  after thinking twice about it, it occurred to me that the only reason
  checkpoint 6.6 is a P3 is that table navigation is a P1 requirement for a
  dependent user agent, so i suppose you would not be placing an undue burden on
  a blind author to require him or her to ALT-TAB (or spawn a new shell) to run a
  dependent user agent in order to hear (and/or feel) if his labor has born fruit
  or been in vain...  i just hope that he or she is using a triple-A authoring
  tool, that produces quote content that conforms to the W3C's Web Content
  Accessibility Guidelines unquote...
  
  gregory.
  
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