[.4] Proposed rewording for guideline and success criteria

The proposal below was prompted in part by my work on General Techniques
for 2.4 and in part by the issue summary prepared by Yvette several
weeks ago. I'll send a separate message listing many of those issues and
how I think this proposal addresses them (or does not yet address them).
 
The current wording for Guideline 2.4 and its success criteria, as they
appear in the 8 October internal working draft, follows the proposed
text.
 
<proposed>
 
Guideline 2.4. Make it as easy as possible for users to find the content
they need and to identify their location within content.
 
Guideline 2.4 L1
List of 1 items
1. No Level 1 success criteria for this guideline.
list end
 
Guideline 2.4 L2
List of 5 items
1. Content has explicit structure.
2. Long documents that are presented as a single perceivable unit
include a Table of Contents with links to important sections of the
document. Editor's
note:It is possible that this criterion can be satisfied through
reference to UAAG 1.0, checkpoints 9.9 Allow structured navigation
(Priority 2) and 10.4
Provide outline view (Priority 2).
3. There is more than one way to locate content, including but not
limited to link groups, a site map, site search or other navigation
mechanism.
4. Blocks of repeated material, such as navigation menus with 8 or more
links, are marked up so that they can be bypassed by people who use
assistive technology
or who navigate via keyboard or keyboard interface. [V]
 
Editor's note:General Techniques might include something about metadata,
future role attribute, etc., to support this.
5. Complex images can be viewed in detail.
list end
 
Guideline 2.4 L3
List of 6 items
1. When content is organized in a sequence, that sequence can be
determined programmatically.
 
Editor's note:This still needs work. The problem is how to specify that
it applies to content that is intended to appear as a sequence without
requiring
a test for intention.
2. The tab order follows relationships and sequences in the content.
3. Images have structure that users can access.
4. Perceivable units have descriptive titles
5. Text is divided into paragraphs.
6. Documents are divided into hierarchical sections and subsections with
descriptive titles.
list end
</proposed> <current> Guideline 2.4 Facilitate the ability of users to
orient themselves and move within the content. [level 2 guideline] Level
1 Success
Criteria for Guideline 2.4 List of 1 items 1. No level 1 success
criteria for this guideline. list end Level 2 Success Criteria for
Guideline 2.4 List
of 2 items (contains 1 nested list) 1. In documents greater than 50,000
words or sites larger than 50 perceived pages, at least one of the
following is
provided. [V] Editorial Note: What's a perceived page? What if it's a
voice XML application? How does it apply to Web applications? Why 50 and
50,000?
List of 3 items nesting level 1 A. hierarchical structure, B. table of
contents (for pages) or site map (for sites), C. alternate display order
(for pages)
or alternate site navigation mechanisms (for sites). list end nesting
level 1 2. Large blocks of material that are repeated on multiple pages,
such as
navigation menus with more than 8 or more links, can be bypassed by
people who use screen readers or who navigate via keyboard or keyboard
interface. [V]
list end Level 3 Success Criteria for Guideline 2.4 List of 5 items
(contains 1 nested list) 1. Information is provided that would indicate
at least one
logical sequence in which to read a document. [I] 2. Diagrams are
constructed so that they have structure that users can access. [I] 3.
Logical tab order
has been created. [I] Editorial Note: "logical tab order" may not be
testable. 4. Each page or other resource that can be accessed separately
and that
supports a title has a title that identifies the subject or purpose of
the resource. [I] Editorial Note: We need to define "accessed
separately" to clarify
that what is being titled is a piece of content in its entirety vs.
individual elements or portions of the content. 5. There is a statement
associated
with the content asserting that items from the following list were
considered: [V] List of 3 items nesting level 1 A. Breaking up text into
logical paragraphs,
B. Dividing documents, especially very long ones, into hierarchical
sections and subsections with clear and informative titles, C. Revealing
important
non-hierarchical relationships, such as cross-references so that the
relationships are represented unambiguously in the markup or data model.
Editorial
Note: Are there any others? list end nesting level 1 list end </current>

"Good design is accessible design."

Dr. John M. Slatin, Director 
Accessibility Institute
University of Texas at Austin 
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