- From: Leonard R. Kasday <kasday@acm.org>
- Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 11:46:25 -0500
- To: w3c-wai-er-ig@w3.org
Per my action item from today... I checked the AU document, especially the section on evaluating accessibility [1] and did not see the requirement we discussed today, to wit: Provide means to record the results of manual checks of a document. This enables the author to avoid performing those checks again. - The manual check results should reference the particular parts of the document to which they apply. - If the document changes, the results document should be updated, but only to the extent it's actually impacted by the changes in the document. For example, manual checks of ALT text on an image should not be affected if HTML text changes elsewhere. It may be most convenient to implement this feature in object oriented architectures, where each object (e.g. an image tag) is responsible for tracking manual accessibility decisions relevent to itself. - A possible format for recording the accessibility decisions is that being developed in the EARL activity of ER [2] If we have consensus within ER on this proposal, I'll send it to AU for their consideration. Len p.s. I said "manual checks of ALT text on an image should not be affected if HTML text changes elsewhere" Hmmm. Are there actually cases where ALT text would depend on context? [1] http://www.w3.org/WAI/AU/WD-ATAG10-TECHS-20000918/#gl-identify-markup [2] http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/IG/#earl -- Leonard R. Kasday, Ph.D. Institute on Disabilities/UAP and Dept. of Electrical Engineering at Temple University (215) 204-2247 (voice) (800) 750-7428 (TTY) http://astro.temple.edu/~kasday mailto:kasday@acm.org Chair, W3C Web Accessibility Initiative Evaluation and Repair Tools Group http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/IG/ The WAVE web page accessibility evaluation assistant: http://www.temple.edu/inst_disabilities/piat/wave/
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