Re: Who's willing to test "Preliminary Review" section?

At 2001-07-30 18:23, Lila Laux wrote:
>Judy,
>Having done these kinds of evaluations before (for Qwest) I know that lots
>of people don't know how to turn off images, increase font sizes, etc. on
>their browser, and that every browser has the commands/instructions located
>in different menus and calls them different things (for example in Netscape
>you turn images off in preferences, but in IE you unselect the show pictures
>option on the advanced tab of the Internet options pop-up).  I also know
>that I forget between times I do it and waste a lot of time rediscovering
>the process... So I think there should be more instructions for how to do
>the things that we are telling users to do: turn off images, change the font
>size (larger and smaller) in the browser, turn off the sound, and change the
>display color to black and white. The instructions will have to be browser
>specific - so I guess we have to decide how many browsers we want to give
>directions for.  Maybe this could be hyperlinked (Ex: link = for
>instructions for testing your web page with X browser).
>Am I the only one who has difficulty remembering how to do these things?
>Lila

Lila, I too forget and fumble. It looks like you have a good start to a
worthwhile resource. Since WAI should not be exclusionary, the set of
expected behaviors should be taken, say from the UAAG, and the request
made to any browser supplier to describe how that behavior is achieved
in the form of instructions for achieving it.

The advantage of inviting the supplying vendors is so we can be as 
inclusive as we get contributions, and not leave anyone out. As we 
advertise that
we are making a comparative document, I believe that the vendors will
want to be properly included.

Note that such a document is transitory, with need for updates as products
get updated. That too is to the vendor's advantage, if we provide a
means to make new versions.

The problem of non-standard names for the desired effect suggests that the
WCAG/UAAG checkpoint text have its alternative if any given for each browser.

Browser suppliers should be invited to augment a starting list of these,
contributed however incompletely by anyone who has the experience and
organization to pull it off.

The WCAG, ATAG, and forthcoming UAAG guidelines have associated
"techniques" showing that some implementation is feasible for each
checkpoint. There is no requirement that the method to meet a checkpoint
is described for all browsers/AT.

A place for vendor input could well be the User Agent Accessibility
Guidelines Techniques document. This is expected to be changed more often
than the Guidelines themselves.

An answer from a browser supplier could be "depends on/requires some
attached assistive technology."

Descriptions of methods can be convoluted, depending on interdependent
user settings and author/source desires. For example the style cascade
of CSS2.

Example:

Description of some capabilities, such as font size, are treated
differently:

     IE:         Smallest, Smaller, Medium, Larger, Largest
                 The default seems further adjusted by styles, say for hN.
                 Accepts absolute font sizes, in keeping with the
                 desire to round-trip from MS Word without loss of
                 presentation. Not sure of precedence among explicitly
                 included size in the document, stylesheets, and user
                 preferences. Not sure of persistence across loaded
                 documents with and without stylesheets or explicit
                 size in document markup.

     Opera:      21 percentage choices, 20% to 1000%, setting persists
                 for new loaded document.

     NSC 4.74:   smaller: Ctrl-[ larger: Ctrl-]  unlimited? sizes,
                 setting persists onto new loaded document. May not
                 affect content with specified font sizes.

Regards/Harvey

Received on Tuesday, 31 July 2001 02:28:34 UTC