- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Sat, 01 Aug 1998 17:37:45 -0700
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Part of the the second questionnaire for the HTML Writers Guild's Accessibility Guidelines Implementation project asked the participants to evaluate the W3C's WAI Guidelines for Page Authors section by section, and assign a rating to each guideline: 1 - Strongly agree 2 - Agree with most of it 3 - Ambivalent 4 - Disagree with some of it 5 - Strongly Disagree The following results were compiled from the surveys: 1. Frames 1.09 - Strongly agree 2. Images and Image Maps 1.5 - Agree Links 1.5 - Agree 4. User-Input Forms 1.58 - Agree 5. Style and Structure 1.65 - Agree 6. Applets and Scripts 2.0 - Agree with most of it 7. If All Else Fails 2.06 - Agree with most of it 8. Audio and Video 2.36 - Agree with some of it 9. Tables 2.6 - Ambivalent In other words, nearly every web designer responding agreed with the W3C's guidelines on frames, and the most controversial sections were those on the use of tables (which recommends the use of HTML 4's more advanced, and complex, table structuring) and multimedia (which require transcripts and SMIL). These results can be used as a measure of how the typical web developer, when confronted with April 14, 1998 page author guidelines, will react to them. While it is not expected that most authors will automatically accept all the recommendations, it behooves the WAI project to produce guidelines that are palatable to the average, well-meaning designer -- because if they read them and reject them, the battle itself is lost right there. More details and further information will be coming soon, as analysis continues. The AGI homepage is at: http://www.hwg.org/opcenter/projects/agi/ -- Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com> http://www.idyllmtn.com/~kynn/ Owner, Idyll Mountain Internet http://www.idyllmtn.com/ Board member, HTML Writers Guild http://www.hwg.org/ Virtual Dog Show Co-Coordinator http://www.dogshow.com/ MLists Mailing List Service http://www.mlists.com/
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