- From: Wendy Chisholm <wendy@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2004 12:57:14 -0400
- To: Sailesh Panchang <spanchang02@yahoo.com>
- Cc: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
Hello Sailesh, Sailesh Panchang wrote: > Insert L2 criteria: document or page or frames have titles (currently > L3 should be L2). An Modify > L3 criteria to say identify lists, forms, tables, and other elements > with title or caption. I can live with > this at L3 but would prefer this to be L2. "title" is an HTML attribute and "caption" is an HTML element. Can you propose a more general success criterion? Do you think the HTML techniques adquately cover these issues? If not, please propose what to add. > Rationale: Need to distinguish title for page and frame from title on > other elements. > Page titles and frame titles are essential for getting oriented and > should at least be L2. Titles / > captions on lists, forms, and tables etc. facilitate moving around > and identifying the required one.As > an example, if there are five tables with captions on a page, I can > quickly move between tables > identifying the desired one based on the caption read by JAWS. Win > Eyes reads title on form > elements and that helps to navigate to the required form when there > are multiple forms on a page. > (of course title on lists and forms need to be more widely supported > by browsers / AT) HTML 4.01 requires every page to have a title [1] and WCAG 2.0 Guideline 4.1 Level 1 criterion [2] says use technology according to specification, therefore title for a page is a Level 1 for HTML. [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#h-7.4.2 [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/#use-spec -- wendy a chisholm world wide web consortium web accessibility initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI/ /--
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