- From: Judy Brewer <jbrewer@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 01:49:05 -0500
- To: w3c-wai-eo@w3.org
WAI EO WG Agenda, January 15, 1999 Time: 8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. US EST. Phone bridge: US: +1 (617) 252-1038 [European participants: Please NOTE that there is not a bridge in France this time. We were not able to get the INRIA bridge this time, and also have been hearing that it is actually more expensive to call country-to-country in Europe in most cases than to call direct to the US. Could the EOWG members in Europe please confirm whether this in the case or not.] AGENDA 1. Outreach & Updates 2. Technical Reference Notes, Update - new format, clearer audience, IJ revising 3. Definitions & Profiles Note, Update - additional terms? 4. Policy Page, Update 5. US Government Initiative, Update - administration announcement, January 13 6. Events Coverage, Status? 7. QuickTips Revision, Upcoming - get your comments in if you've been testing them 8. Web Characterization Activity, Data Wanted - see notes below! 9. Review of first draft of PR list - <http://www.webspots.net/eo/pr_list.htm> - <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-eo/1999JanMar/0017.html> - <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-eo/1999JanMar/0018.html> ------------- Web Characterization Activity, notes on data wanted; please review & comment: [this was a rough first pass at the types of data needed for baseline assessment of Web accessibility, and for assessing changes over time in complexity of Web access issues as multimedia increases, as legacy browsers are superceded with those with better accessibility, etc.] 1. What we want to know: A. Is the Web getting more or less accessible (measured across sampling of automatible guidelines) B. Can we link trends to causes (many factors: availability of Web technologies, guidelines, promotion) C. What is the deployment of new/legacy user agents? of browsers implementing new access supports? of legacy browsers needing proxy supports? D. How should we be adjusting our strategies? 2. Examples of static information--that can be sampled over time: (Beware not assessing accuracy of alternate information) A. Do all images (IMG) provide alt-text? B. Do all applets (APPLET) provide alt-text and content? C. Do all image map links (AREA) provide alt-text? D. Do frames have titles? E. Do pages that contain frames have fallback NOFRAME pages? F. Etc…. 3. Static but marginally testable, or untestable (Beware involves subjective assessment) A. Do stand-alone audio files have a textual transcript of all words spoken or sung, & significant sounds? B. Do server-side image maps provide text links for each hotspot in the image map? C. Does audio associated with video have a textual transcript of dialog and sounds? D. Do foreground & background color combinations provide sufficient contrast? E. Do scripts presenting critical information or functions provide alternative, equivalent information through NOSCRIPT? 4. Dynamic behavior A. For sites using longdesc, what volume of hits to that information? (once this is implemented) B. In a SMIL multimedia presentation, what is the frequency of access to captions? C. What is the frequency of access to an audio description track synchronized with video? D. Etc... 5. Performance data related to style sheet usage A. To what extent does full usage of style sheets for presentational mark-up speed transmission time? (once this is more measurable) (e.g. this kind of data supports universal design benefits of broader deployment of style sheets, which also helps accessibility) 6. User Agent & Device Trends A. Changes in user agent distribution which support different access features? B. Changes in device distibution which parallel some access requirements, & /or create new access requirements (such as mobile phones, TV-based Web) 7. How much of this testable with existing resources? A. and how much requires more consistent/ and/or sophisticated Web characterization tools? B. how much would benefit from greater consistency, reliability, automatibility, sustainable, comprehensive... ---------- Judy Brewer jbrewer@w3.org +1.617.258.9741 http://www.w3.org/WAI Director, Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) International Program Office World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) MIT/LCS Room NE43-355, 545 Technology Square, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA
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