- From: Roberto Scano - IWA/HWG <rscano@iwa-italy.org>
- Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 10:30:27 +0200
- To: "Web Content Guidelines" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason White" <jasonw@ariel.its.unimelb.edu.au> Yvette P. Hoitink writes: > > I do like your proposal that WCAG should reference UAAG and ATAG, just like > UAAG and ATAG reference WCAG. That way we maximize the awareness of the > existence of these guidelines. I agree this is a good idea, independently of the extent to which the different sets of guidelines are well known to developers, which as Yvette rightly notes, varies according to context. However, it isn't clear how the interdependencies should be stated. Is it sufficient to say that if any parts of the content satisfy the definition of "user agent" or "authoring tool", then the respective guidelines should be applied? This is not the purpose for which the definitions were written. An alternative would be to stipulate that if it is possible for part or all of the content to conform to UAAG or ATAG, then it must so conform. A techniques document could then set out the characteristics that indicate one is dealing with an authoring tool or user agent component. Roberto Scano: I agree about the reference to the ATAG for authoring tools that are web-based, like CMS. Also here in Italy we are working for promote the ATAG: at now not inside the law, but there are a lot of initiatives that promote the use of tools that help to generate code that conform to WCAG: as all we know, there isn't a *supertool* that let everyone to conform to WCAG, and there isn't also a *supertool* that conform to the maximum level of ATAG 1.0. So, if we have some content that generate other content, we need to refer at least to the mimimum level of ATAG 1.0. What I don't understand is: there are web contents that are "user agents" ? If the answer is: yes, see for example embedded video, embedded document, my reply will be: these are objects, and should be referred as the *old* WCAG 1.0 Checkpoint 8.1. Also, the problem is that if we refer to embedded objects that are "played" with an user agent (media player) inside another user agent (Browser), how can we check the player conformance? All depends about the user preferences: I can, for example, choose to use Quicktime for show the .avi files intead of Windows Media Player or RealONE, or use other freeware applications: should we ask to the web developer to wrote in the page what user agent must use for see an object inside a page? This is my dubt. Roberto Scano (IWA/HWG)
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