- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 16:52:41 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-hwg@idyllmtn.com>
- cc: w3c-wai-eo@w3.org
Why it is important: Browsers which do not render frames as separate panes of the same window often render the noframes content, and expose links to each of the frames linked from a frameset. The title, if it is present, often forms the link text, and is more suitable than either the name or the src attribute (the two things which are required) for providing human-comprehensible information. Charles McCN On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Kynn Bartlett wrote: This looks like an issue for the Education and Outreach group, although possibly it's one for the Guidelines group. It's much easier for people to do things if they can see the reasons why -- current guideline versions don't fully explain the "why" for each checkpoint, and so some things don't seem to make very much sense. (Identifying info stripped from the following forwarded email) >i found your e-mail off of the w3c-wai-ig mailing list and noticed that you >taught a course throught the html writters guild on designing accessible web >pages. i am working on a research project about the new html accessibility >guidelines and thought that you might be able to point me to a good resource >or even better answer my question. i am looking for some of the reasoning >behind some of the the guidelines. specifically i am trying to understand >what is the benefit of adding the title attribute to the frame tag. this is >12.1 of the guidelines. i have not been able to find the "why this is >important" for several of the points on the w3c's site. any pointers to or >information you could pass on would be greatly appreciated. -- Kynn Bartlett mailto:kynn@hwg.org President, HTML Writers Guild http://www.hwg.org/ AWARE Center Director http://aware.hwg.org/ --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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