- From: <pjenkins@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 12:35:48 -0500
- To: "Gregory J. Rosmaita" <unagi69@concentric.net>, w3c-wai-au@w3.org
Gregory wrote: >...While this is covered in a general manner in GL7 ... >I believe that a more explicit statement which addresses >the necessity of ensuring that the online/runtime help >system is accessible to persons with disabilities >MUST be added to GL7 Loughborough wrote: >...Some priority two items should probably be reconsidered > as P1s... GL7.1 is a priority 1. GL7.1 does "implicitly" include on-line and runtime help documentation because at least 2 of the "software checklists" that I recently referred to, Microsoft's [1] and IBM's [2] include on-line help and documentation as explicit checklist items. Why don't we also include KEYBOARD ACCESS, which in my opinion is even more important that accessible help? We do not need to include any nor all of the items from the applicable standards and conventions to make 7.1 better understood. We do not need to include any nor all of the Web Content Accessibility checkpoints items either. We *DO* need to point to the applicable standards and conventions which affect authoring - which is currently being done. Summary: do not add more checkpoints to GL7. [1] Microsoft software checklist http://www.microsoft.com/enable/dev/guidelines/software.htm#Documentation [2] IBM Software checklist http://www.austin.ibm.com/sns/accesssoftware.html#checklist Regards, Phill Jenkins
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