- From: Gregg Vanderheiden <po@trace.wisc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 31 Oct 1997 13:31:02 -0600
- To: "'Al Gilman'" <asgilman@access.digex.net>, "w3c-wai-ig@w3.org" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
This is a VERY real problem area and one that we need to address. We just finished a preliminary guidelines compilation - it is under review in the guidelines subgroup. THERE IS A LOT TO THINK ABOUT. A priority has to be thinking about how to make the guidelines simpler and reduce the work of page authors without dropping necessary access considerations. We have launched a project here currently called c2s2 (cooperative cross-segment strategy project) to look at how this might be done by dividing the problem across segments (authors, user agent designers, website tool developers, web author tool developers and at manufacturers) to see what can be done. We are interested in all input. Otherwise I am afraid all this is going to get so complicated that people will start to bail or feel they have justification to ignore it. Gregg -----Original Message----- From: Al Gilman [SMTP:asgilman@access.digex.net] Sent: Thursday, October 30, 1997 4:19 PM To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org Subject: automatable guidelines to follow up on what Charles said: > > ... Let's work on the authoring tools and making sure that the > accessibility ISVs are using the features provided by the browsers. > There is not doubt that our best laid plans for accessible HTML usage will be dust-on-the-shelf ware unless they are a natural fit as defaults within the leading authoring tools of the sighted majority. You will see that philosophy being applied, for example, in the discussion of table browsing leading up to and following the post w3c-wai-hc@w3.org from October to December 1997: the "balloon help" gambit http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-hc/1997OctDec/0010.html On the other hand, dealing with the tools of the majority is not enough. The universal Web has to be accessible to writers as well as readers. For the foreseeable future that means that the HTML language has to make sense as a medium of exchange between people authoring in WYSWYG and people authoring in source text, as discussed in Status of ACSS action item on 02 July 1977 http://www.access.digex.net/%7Easgilman/web-access/ACSS/status1.html This means that the usage guidelines need to work in both contexts, too. -- Al Gilman
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