- From: Brian Kelly <lisbk@ukoln.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 11:22:54 -0000
- To: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
Some comments on the Web Contents Accessibility Guidelines (26 Feb 99 draft). In the introduction you state "...accessibility design does not generally mean extra work ...". I think this is misleading. It may not mean much extra work if you are creating HTML documents from scratch. However if you are converting large numbers of legacy documents it can be (prompts to add ALT tags can't be done in batch mode). Also work has to be done to use "safe" CSS features - otherwise pages may be unprintable in certain versions of Netscape. Unfortunately I think the accessibility guidelines have to take into account bugs in widely deployed browsers. Guidelines one gives the example "a logo in a link might be "Return to home page"." The "Return to Home Page" is a bad name for an anchor, as the user might not have visited the home page. I'd suggest "Go to home page". Checkpoint 1.1 and elsewhere gives HTML elements in capitals (e.g. IMG). In the light of the XHTML document, arguably these should be lowercase?? Brian Kelly ------------------------------------------------------ Brian Kelly, UK Web Focus UKOLN, University of Bath, BATH, England, BA2 7AY Email: b.kelly@ukoln.ac.uk URL: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ Homepage: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln/staff/b.kelly.html Phone: 01225 323943 FAX: 01225 826838
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