Re: Conformance Logo in Markup

I did something similar in CSS. But then someone from the W3C complained :
") I'm afraid that this does not constitute a valid conformance
   claim according to WCAG 1.0, which states:

   "Claims of conformance to this document must use one of the
    following two forms.."

   From 1: Specify a bunch of stuff.

   Form 2: Include, on each page claiming conformance, one of three
   icons provided by W3C and link the icon to the appropriate W3C '
   explanation of the claim. Information about the icons and how
   to insert them in pages is available at [WCAG-ICONS].

   I think that the CSS approach might be used in conjunction
   with form 1, but form 2 requires images made available by W3"C.
"
IN other words You have to use there icons. Text in images and all.
Well hear is a nice catch 22 situation. If we come up with a good logo that
is using mark up, we violate the criteria for conformance claim.
However if we use the W3C logo, we violate WCAG itself.
Now what?
L
-----Original Message-----
From: Sean B. Palmer <sean@mysterylights.com>
To: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Date: Friday, December 29, 2000 5:21 PM
Subject: Conformance Logo in Markup


>Inspired by Kynn's excellent efforts to produce an XHTML/CSS version of the
>WAI logo, I had a go myself:-
>(not online yet). It uses tables for layout for a start, which is an
>abomination, but it's less of an abomination than using text in images ;-)
>Also, it makes sense when linearized, and it has the relavent summary and
>titles.
>
>XHTML:-
><table cellspacing="0"
>   summary="WAI: WCAG 1.0 Level AA Conformance Assertion">
><tr>
><td class="left">
> <div>
>   <a href="http://www.w3.org/"
>      title="The World Wide Web Consortium"><span
>      class="blue">W3</span><span
>      class="grey">C</span></a>
> </div>
></td>
><td class="right">
> <div>
>   <a href="http://www.w3.org/WAI/"
>      title="Web Accessibility Initiative"
>      class="black">WAI</a>-<a
>      href="http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG1AA-Conformance"
>      title="Explanation of Level AA WCAG 1.0 Conformance"
>      class="red">AA</a>
> </div>
> <div>
>   <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG/"
>      title="Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Version 1.0"
>      class="darkgrey">WCAG 1.0</a>
>  </div>
></td>
></tr>
></table>
>
>CSS:-
>
>table { border:2px solid #a0a0a0;margin:0em;
>padding:0em;font-family:arial;font-weight:bold; }
>tr { padding:0em;margin:0em; }
>table a { text-decoration: none; }
>td { margin: 0em; }
>td.left { background-color:#ffffff; padding:0.1em;font-size:0.95em; }
>td.right { background-color:#ffdb8b;text-align:right;padding:
>   0.2em 0.2em 0.2em 0.7em;font-size: 0.7em; }
>.blue { color: #00509f; }
>.grey { color: #b0b0b8; }
>.black { color: #000000; }
>.red { color: #c00010; }
>.darkgrey { color: #606080; }
>
>It's quite neat, but you may want to add further classes in case you have
>more tables on your page that you don't want to be affected.
>
>Kindest Regards,
>Sean B. Palmer
>http://infomesh.net/sbp/
>"Perhaps, but let's not get bogged down in semantics."
>   - Homer J. Simpson, BABF07.
>
>

Received on Saturday, 30 December 2000 11:34:33 UTC