- From: B.K. DeLong <bkdelong@naw.org>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 13:17:35 -0500
- To: w3c-wai-eo@w3.org
- Cc: <dsr@w3.org>
This may be being discussed in User Agent but has anyone thought to develop a Web Accessibility test suite? As mentioned previously, the Mozilla team is working hard to implement things like the TITLE, ACCESSKEY, and TABINDEX attributes as well as elements like OPTGROUP, FIELDSET, and LEGEND. But they have no real basis for what they should look like. I'd like to suggest we take all of the accessibility issues mentioned in: http://www.w3.org/WAI/References/HTML4-access and create a test suite. I will volunteer to create the pages but I need two bits of information: 1) What the function of each attribute/element is. For instance, the FIELDSET element draws a box around a set of FORM fields and the LEGEND child element is the label imbedded at the start of the box's border. 2) What, if any, browsers implement these attributes/elements correctly. For example, the above mentioned elements are rendered correctly in IE5b2. Please let me know what you think. Microsoft is starting to mention to various people that they are "freezing" the code for IE5b2 which means any feedback on bugs will soon be cut out of the next version. Netscape is working hard on implementing full HTML 4.0 but needs guidance on how certain attributes/elements should be implemented. Basically, I want to do this ASAP if I do this at all. -- B.K. DeLong 360 Huntington Ave. Director Suite 140CSC-305 New England Chapter Boston, MA 02115 World Organization (617) 247-3753 of Webmasters http://www.world-webmasters.org bkdelong@naw.org
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