ATAG2 proposal on use of structure

Hi all,

I had an action to propose a way to handle the comments on A.3.4.1 and A.3.4.2:
MS12,13,14,15
GL22
OC6
IBM27,28,29

After a lot of thinking about what it is that we really want (more efficient navigation for slow-keyboarding users) I'm considering a new tack based on "programmatic relationships". This seems to me to be the most important kind of structure in terms of facilitating navigation:

A.3.4.1 Navigation of Programmatic Relationships: If an editing-view lets authors edit programmatic relationships within web content, then mechanisms are provided supporting navigation between the related content. (Level AA)
Note: Depending on the web content technology and the nature of the authoring tool, relationships can include element nesting, headings, labelling, programmatic definitions, ID relationships, etc.

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Ed. Notes:
- I moved the navigation SC to AA because there are enough examples of editing being possible without structural navigation that they didn't seem "essential".
- I tried a lot of formulations of structural element along the lines of what was suggested " Not all markup elements are structural. A button is not a structural element. Structural elements are those that define structure for other content elements: landmarks, tables, headings, listboxes, lists, tree widgets, etc. Structural elements provide context in a defined layout or order. An example would be a containment model." But I couldn't get it to work because it's so context sensitive.
- We let the tool UI dictate which programmatic relationships are available. So a plain text field that was never intended to be used to create structured content, doesn't need to support any structural navigation.
- This covers great features such as many IDE's "Definition" that immediately finds the code behind a method call (which wasn't covered by earlier structure-based SCs).
- for flexibility it doesn't say how many mechanisms
 
Thoughts?

Jan
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(Mr) Jan Richards, M.Sc.
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Received on Tuesday, 5 October 2010 22:30:29 UTC