Re: Issues and Teleconference

> 1. The web report form.  
> 
> Last message to this list was 
> 
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-er-ig/1998Aug/0024.html
> 
> Daniels's draft form is at http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/report

As you noticed, I'm now leaning toward a "stepped" version of the report.

I also maintain a open-issue page for this report form: 
   http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/rep-issues.html

> - Do we as a group have consensus that this is a useful tool?

I think so.

> - Do we have additional suggestions for improvement?

probably more coming in

> - Is there a way to test some of the concepts with users?

yes, a trial with this forum for instance.

> - In addition to sending reports to webmasters, should reports be made public?


I think so. I want to use a simple w3c public mailing list where
reports are cced and where webmaster and reporters can discuss their
points. 

> 3. Textual Equivalents 
> 
> This concerns tools that try to supply ALT text and other text equivalents
> when they are missing from web page.
> 
>   Daniel's  features are at http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/text-equiv.htm
> 
>   - How can we determine value of various approaches?  
>      e.g. apply by hand to "typical" pages?

Whatever tool is going to use these techniques should make its best
effort to offer as many choices to the user as possible without
damaging/loading the setup interface. One should be able to select
what default operational mode is desired and then select
alternative/override techniques as it moves on.
 
> 5. Tables.
> 
>    According to comments from some folks in Peterborough, tables cause
> major difficulty once
>    alternative text is taken care of, since the spatial organization of
> tables conveys information.
> 
>    Recommendations for browing tables in the UA guidelines. e.g. in the
> working draft
> 
>   http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/WD-WAI-USERAGENT-19980814.html#Alt-tables
>   http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/WD-WAI-USERAGENT-19980814.html#Nav-tables
> 
>   Can we provide some of this functionality to people using current day
> browsers?

My student Eric has been working on a TABLE linearizer and I hope to
come up soon with a demo online.
You can read some ideas about it in http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/WG/tablin.txt

Received on Tuesday, 6 October 1998 10:43:24 UTC