Re: [TECHS] Object tag test files.

To The Group -

What I believe David is saying (David, please correct me if I am wrong) is
that test suites, not unlike web content in a general sense should be
accessible as though it/they too were WCAG compliant.

> Do you really mean test *suites*? Because we have those.
> <http://www.student.oulu.fi/~sairwas/object-test/>

Are the above test suites WCAG compliant?  I looked at one link:

http://www.student.oulu.fi/~sairwas/object-test/images/gif1.html

(this was #1. Under Images on that page.  The test suite did not have the
image of the dog alt tagged, thus the suite did not conform to WCAG.  Plus,
on a few other suites, my browser told me there was a needed "plug-in" and I
had no clue what plug-in was needed - again, not accessible content by the
current WCAG 2.0 working draft.

So, in part, I do not think David is saying, test suites do not exist or
cannot exist but more likely that he'd (and I agree) like to see the suites
(where at ALL possible) be accessible themselves. I agree that test suites
that are NOT accessible send the wrong messages to developers.  And, I
believe developers will take notice of "our" materials and hold us
accountable to the standards that we'd like to think developers were holding
themselves accountable to.

My thoughts -

Doyle 

Doyle Burnett
Education and Training Specialist
Multiple Disabilities Program
Special Education Service Agency
dburnett@sesa.org
Www.sesa.org
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On 4/7/05 9:04 AM, "Joe Clark" <joeclark@joeclark.org> wrote:

>> I was given the task to review tests that apply to the object tag. #75,
>> 76, 77, 78¸ 79, 27, 128, 129, 183.
> 
> 
> Do you really mean test *suites*? Because we have those.
> 
> <http://www.student.oulu.fi/~sairwas/object-test/>
> 
>> In general I have a problem with tests that are designed to pass a certain
>> accessibility principle but are inaccessible in other respects.
> 
> Such as?
> 
> No captions on multimedia? What?
> 
>> Can we not create passing test files that are WCAG compliant in other
>> respects.
> 
> Do you refer to using object and embed in valid HTML?
> 
> <http://joeclark.org/access/captioning/bpoc/embed-object.html>

Received on Thursday, 7 April 2005 17:46:21 UTC