- From: Loretta Guarino Reid <lguarino@adobe.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 12:51:15 -0800
- To: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
Action item - review Checkpoint 4.1 success criteria for testability. Here is the current statement of the checkpoint and its success criteria: ****************** Checkpoint 4.1 Choose technologies that support the use of these guidelines. Success criteria You will have successfully chosen a technology that supports the use of these guidelines if the technology: 1.permits equivalents to be associated with or synchronized with auditory, graphical, and multimedia content, 2.allows the logical structure of the content to be defined independently of presentation, 3.supports device-independence, 4.is documented in published specifications and can be implemented by user agent and assistive technology developers, 5.is supported by user agents and assistive technologies. Issue: are these success criteria complete? If not, what should be added or changed? Should we provide a link to the XML guidelines? Issue: should the checkpoint be reworked (or an additional checkpoint inserted here) to require that content be designed, as far as possible, so that it is amenable to automated accessibility testing? *********** SC 1: This checkpoint seems testable. In fact, the techniques documents for each technology should explain how to provide these equivalents. We may want to rephrase this slightly, since not all technologies may support auditory, graphical, or multimedia content. If the technology does support them, however, equivalents are required. SC 2: This seems testable, but we have had discussions on the list about the meaning of "logical structure" and "presentation". This is only testable to the degree that we believe we have clear definitions for those terms. SC 3: I'm not sure what this success criterion means! I assume it is a reference to Checkpoint 2.5, but are "event handlers" technology specific? To make this testable, we may need to list the range of devices that should be supportable. SC 4: "Documented in published specifications" is testable. Whether something can be implemented by user agents and assistive technology developers seems harder to judge. Can we identify what the UA and AT requirements are? SC 5: We've reintroduced "Until User Agents...". Is it sufficient for there to be a single user agent and assistive technology that supports the technology?
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