- From: Andi Snow-Weaver <andisnow@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 12:37:46 -0500
- To: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
> CORRECTION: the URL for the IBM Accessibility Guidelines is http://www.ibm.com/able/guidelines.htm. Andi > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Message-ID: <39D37317.47483831@us.ibm.com> > Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 11:34:32 -0500 > From: Andi Snow-Weaver <andisnow@us.ibm.com> > To: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org > Subject: Re: my action item > > > > > Lisa, > > I find the table somewhat unwieldy with only three technologies. It will only > get worse as we add more columns. If I am working in HTML and CSS, I am only > interested in those two columns. But because the checkpoint column and the > XML/XSL columns take up half the width of the window, I am forced to read > screens and screens of narrow columns of information. Cognitively, it is hard > for me to keep focused with this presentation. > > In the IBM Accessibility Guidelines (http://www.ibm.com/able/guidelines.html), > we have only the checkpoints in a table. Each checkpoint has a link to a page > with the techniques for that checkpoint. In IBM, we have found that the best > approach is to have a separate checklist for each technology. For example, we > could have added techniques for developing accessible Lotus Notes applications > to the software checklist. But, when someone is creating a form in Lotus Notes, > they just want to know what they have to do to make that form accessible. They > don't really care about the original principle from which the techniques were > derived. So rather than make them wade through checkpoints that don't apply and > techniques for a technology they are not currently using, we chose to develop > separate checklists for Lotus Notes developers. > > Andi > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > From: "Lisa Seeman" <seeman@netvision.net.il> > > To: "WAI \(E-mail\)" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org> > > Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 10:12:07 +0200 > > Message-ID: <000a01c02925$4ec47300$5fa1003e@ndcil.com> > > Subject: my action item > > > > I put up a draft of the table format up at > > http://special-needs.org/tablecheckp1.html It is a draft, just to see if we > > think techniques are clearer in a table format. > > Before anyone gets upset, I have not even tried edit (typos? me?) ....This > > is just to see if we like the general format. > > I have only done the first three checkpoints. > > > > Things to note: > > The first checkpoint has (I think) the most techniques, so it makes it the > > hardest to present in this form. > > I left out examples, The table was just getting too big. We could link them > > in, or just add them (as with the original techniques document). > > > > I do not know if this type of presentation is an improvement - > > Your comments...... > > L > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > * Previous message: Wendy A Chisholm: "Beyond the page - applications" > * In reply to: Lisa Seeman: "my action item" > * Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] > * Other mail archives: [this mailing list] [other W3C mailing lists] > * Mail actions: [ respond to this message ] [ mail a new topic ]
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