- From: Jason White <jasonw@ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU>
- Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:28:57 +1100 (AEDT)
- To: WAI Markup Guidelines <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
As a footnote to Charles McCathie-Nevile's excellent treatment of this topic, in addition to providing a generic HTML version of the interactive application which relies on server-side scripts, it has been suggested that the interactive applications themselves be made directly accessible in accordance with the user interface design considerations developed in the User Agent guidelines. Unfortunately, as detailed discussion (amounting to almost two teleconferences, as I recall) demonstrated, there is little concrete guidance that can be given in this respect until the scripting languages, the DOM and user interface technologies have been sufficiently developed to allow accessible scripts to be created easily. Further details can be found in the minutes of GL teleconferences under the general heading of "dynamic HTML". In short I think this topic has received exhaustive coverage, so far as circumstances permit, in the context of the guidelines. The techniques document should be expanded to cover it in greater detail as the technology evolves over the next several years, and helpful insight may also be gleaned, as already mentioned, from the user agent guidelines.
Received on Sunday, 17 January 1999 21:29:05 UTC