- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 12:45:36 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Jon Gunderson <jongund@staff.uiuc.edu>
- cc: w3c-wai-au@w3.org
In guideline 7 there is a more specific requirement that the author can edit anything. The requirement behind this checkpoint (as a Priority 3 - i.e. it is not essential or important to ensuring accessibility, but it is beneficial) is for a support mechanism to keep track of the accessibility work that the author has already done, so that it can be partially automated and the author can concentrate more effort on the creative aspect than on the mechanical repetition. If you looked at this in light of guideline 7 and it was not clear, do you have a suggestion as to how we could make it more obvious? cheers Charles McCN On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Jon Gunderson wrote: Checkpoint 3.4: Provide a mechanism to manage alternative information for multimedia objects, that retains and offers for editing pre-written or previously linked alternative information. Maybe this should be part of a more general checkpoint to make sure that the user can edit any accessibility information. This is the only checkpoint that specifically states the ability to edit accessibility information. Other checkpoints dance around the issue of editing by using the words prompting, checking and correcting. But if an author enters accessibility when they are prompted for accessibility information, will they have an opportunity to change the information? I assume that during checking no accessibility problem will be found and therefore no opporntuity to correct it based on other checkpoints that would potentially allow for editing. Jon Gunderson, Ph.D., ATP Coordinator of Assistive Communication and Information Technology Chair, W3C WAI User Agent Working Group Division of Rehabilitation - Education Services University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign 1207 S. Oak Street Champaign, IL 61820 Voice: 217-244-5870 Fax: 217-333-0248 E-mail: jongund@uiuc.edu WWW: http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~jongund http://www.w3.org/wai/ua http://www.als.uiuc.edu/InfoTechAccess --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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