RE: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines

Perhaps a list of specific do's and don't would be useful. 

For example, the priority 1 problem you mention often occurs when color is
used as a referent, as in:
"Please select an item from those listed in green".

This problem is easily avoided by using additional referents or leaving out
the color referent:
"Please select an item from the 'Expensive' category, listed in green".
-or-
"Please select an item from the 'Expensive' category".

Colors as sole referents are defintely a candidate for the "don'ts". There
are probably many variations of this.

-Aaron


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Warner ten Kate [mailto:tenkate@natlab.research.philips.com]
> Sent: Monday, March 15, 1999 4:23 AM
> To: Charles McCathieNevile
> Cc: Ian Jacobs; Philipp Hoschka; dd@w3.org; symm@w3.org;
> w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
> Subject: Re: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
> 
> 
> Charles McCathieNevile wrote:
> > 
> > There is a Priority 1 problem here where someone sends a 
> message where the
> > colour is critical, and you are reading it in monochrome or 
> via  text to
> > speech. I got an email like that yesterday - I couldn't 
> deduce what they
> > meant without colour.
> 
> Agree, priority is 1 in the crucial case.
> I tried to show there are cases where color isn't crucial.
> 
> To me, the guideline isn't specific in defining when color 
> is crucial/essential/criticial and when it is not. That's 
> left to the subjective judgement of the author. So, our aim 
> is to find a wording where the author receives more guidance.
> 
> Perhaps the creation of awareness on the issue is already sufficient.
> Or, rather then refining the guideline wording or labeling 
> the priority index, adding more explanation and description 
> on what/how a disabled person perceives a Web page, is providing 
> the thing needed. Examples/use cases are the things which can do 
> that job.
> 
> 
> Warner.
>

Received on Monday, 15 March 1999 16:17:50 UTC