Class use in WAI Guidelines, Checklists and Techniques documents

Summary of Attribute Class=value Occurrences in WAI HTML Files

Extracted and tabulated by Harvey Bingham 2000-09-04

File kinds included:
Guidelines, Checklists as lists and matrices, and techniques.
Noting those with display rules from stylesheet: default.css

File prefix code denotes source:
       a- Authoring Tools Accessibility Guidelines 2000-02-03,
              Techniques 2000-05-04
       e- Techniques For Accessibility Evaluation And Repair Tools 2000-08-23
       u- User Agent Accessibility Guidelines Working Draft 2000-08-18
       w- Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 1999-05-05

File suffix code denotes content:
       -g Guidelines
       -l Checklist
       -m Matrix or table form for checklist
       -t Techniques

Total
Class= File
Values Code Filename   File Description

   244 ag  agl00203.htm Authoring Tools Accessibility Guidelines
    40 al  als00203.htm Authoring Tools Checklist List
    76 am  amt00203.htm Authoring Tools Checklist Matrix (Tables)
   551 at  atc00504.htm Authoring Tools Techniques supporting Guidelines
    68 et  eth00823.htm Evaluation and Repair Techniques supporting Guidelines
  1000 ug  ugl00818.htm User Agent Accessibility Guidelines
    16 ul  uls00818.htm User Agent Checklist List
   115 um  ums00818.htm User Agent Checklist Matrix (Tables)
  1060 ut  utk00818.htm User Agent Techniques supporting Guidelines
   573 wg  wgl90505.htm Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
     9 wl  wls90505.htm Web Content Accessibility Checklist List
    93 wm  wmt90505.htm Web Content Accessibility Checklist Matrix (Tables)
   697 wt  wth90505.htm Web Content Accessibility Techniques supporting
                            Guidelines

                 File Codes                * Total Class

    ag       at             ut                  61 #
                                        wt      40 ainst
                            ut                  11 caption
          am             um          wm         34 checkhead
          am             um          wm        175 checkinfo
                               wg                3 CHECKPOINT
    ag       at    ug       ut wg       wt *   972 checkpoint (DT|SPAN)
    ag       at    ug       ut wg       wt *    82 checkpoints (DL)
    ag       at                wg                3 conform
    ag al am at et ug ul um ut wg wl wm wt      13 copyright
                            ut          wt      13 css-example
                                        wt *     9 deprecated-example (.)
    ag       at    ug       ut wg          *   864 dfn-instance (.)
                                        wt     122 einst
                                        wt *    50 example (.)
                            ut                  11 figure
                               wg               14 glnav
                   ug       ut wg               24 GLOSSARY
    ag       at    ug       ut wg          *   259 glossary (DL)
    ag       at    ug       ut wg          *    50 guideline (.)
                   ug       ut                  22 guideline-box
    ag al am at et ug ul um ut wg wl wm wt      13 head
                            ut                   9 html-example
    ag al am at et ug ul um ut wg wl wm wt *    52 navbar (DIV)
                   ug                            8 nbonly
    ag       at    ug       ut wg       wt      32 nonb
    ag       at    ug       ut wg       wt     135 noprint
    ag al am at et ug ul um ut wg wl wm wt      66 notoc
    ag al am at    ug ul um ut wg       wt     387 noxref
                            ut          wt *    60 off (.)
    ag                                           1 priorities-specific
    ag al am at    ug ul um ut wg          *   164 priority1 (.)
    ag al am at    ug ul um ut wg              137 priority2
    ag al am at    ug ul um ut wg               76 priority3
    ag al am at                                 22 priorityR
                                        wt       5 quicktest
                   ug          wg          *    25 subhead (H4)
          am             um          wm         10 table
             at                                 74 techniques
             at                                  1 technologies
    ag       at et ug       ut wg       wt *    32 toc (.|DIV|OL|UL)
    ag       at et ug       ut wg       wt *    87 tocline2 (LI)
    ag       at    ug       ut wg       wt     113 tocline3
    ag       at et ug       ut wg       wt     200 tocxref
                            ut                   1 xml-example

* A value defined for the class in the W3 default.css file.
   (.) indicates general definition of rule(s) for that class value.
   (...|...) suffix are explicit element types with defined actions.
# A missing class value is one in an example, ignored.

  4542 total class values,
    45 different class values occur.
    13 default class values used from default.css file.

The authors must have had some purpose for making all those class values.
I did not seek or find semantics for them.

Regards/Harvey Bingham
Accessibility Consultant
Web Accessibility Initiative Invited Expert
hbingham@acm.org
http://www.tiac.net/users/bingham

Received on Monday, 4 September 2000 02:46:10 UTC