- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 12:48:17 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Jon Gunderson <jongund@staff.uiuc.edu>
- cc: w3c-wai-au@w3.org
The intent of this technique is to require information that the authoring tool can understand, and that has been hhuman authored, specifically in the context of mulitmedia objects although there may be other applicable situations. In the case where information can be automatically generated (ie it is included in the native format which is imported or converted) it should be covered by checkpoint 1.4, as you suggested in your previous email. Do you have a suggestion about how we could clarify this? (Beyond including your example in the techniques, which I suggest we do - thank you.) regards Charles McCN On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Jon Gunderson wrote: Checkpoint 3.3 Provide pre-written alternative information for all multimedia files packaged with the authoring tool. This checkpoint doesn't seem to make sense to me. To me it sounds like you are trying to say that if an object being inserted already has accessibility information associated with it, use that information as the default accessibility information. The words "Provide pre-written" sound like the authoring tool should have some special knowledge of the object being inserted. Maybe reqording the checkpoint to read: "Use imported information to automatically generate accessible markup" This would also incompass more than just mult-media objects. Any object that has information that could be used to generate accessibility markup could be used. In a previous e-mail I discussed a excel chart as an example. 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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