- From: Joe Clark <joeclark@joeclark.org>
- Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 16:37:52 -0500
- To: WAI-GL <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
>The relationship of technologies like HTML and SVG, either one of >which can be the "host" technology and the other supporting, >furthers the complexity of these relationships. How we label and >deal with these technologies has been a source of confusion for some >time. We ended up with three terms: "parent" technology is the main >technology displaying content, "embedded" technology renders a >discrete subset of the content, e.g., as an embedded SVG or movie >clip, and a "style" technology affects the presentation and >accessibility but does not itself play a role in content. "Embedded" is a poor choice of words. The Working Group may not understand that <embed> isn't an HTML element, and that elements like <object> and attributes like longdesc call *other* files into being. This is to be contrasted with alt text (always present in the source document) or the possible case of enclosing alternatives inside nested <object> elements. Hence SVG and movie clips aren't "embedded" in Web pages at all. They are separate files called by the source document. Nonetheless, you're certainly on the right track. >The HTML techniques [8] have "tasks" as well as code examples and >resources. Other repositories like John Slatin's [9] and Chris >Ridpath's [10] exist. We thought we should use the model from the >User Agent Accessibility Guidelines [11]. Chris and Jenae will work >further on this. I trust Chris and Jenae's task will be to locate the many, many other test suites already available online, several of them *published by the W3C*? That would bring the Working Group up to about the year 2000. >Jenae: Survey some sites for things that would go into test framework That seems a bit vague. Standards-compliant developers have been building test cases and compiling bug reports *and making extremely rich sites* for the last three years under the Working Group's nose, as I have been explaining to the Group for that time. Please explain exactly what this to-do item will actually do. It is nonetheless commendable that a Working Group document actually deigned to mention the CSS Zen Garden and Eric Meyer. There may be hope for you yet. -- Joe Clark | joeclark@joeclark.org | <http://joeclark.org/access/> Author, _Building Accessible Websites_ | <http://joeclark.org/book/> Expect criticism if you top-post
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