- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charlesn@sunrise.srl.rmit.edu.au>
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 09:27:54 +1000 (EST)
- To: WAI <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Actually this topic is what the Evaluation and Repair group (WAI-ER) is all about. Anyway... Having a broker/ratings agency to keep track of accessible material (or inaccessible material) could be a good marketing tool to promote accessible design. Getting people to put their own meta tag in is probably not worth the effort, so it would need to rely on third party rating, or on some automated system like Bobby, which I don't think is good enough - it doesn't stop somebody putting sdghws in each ALT tag since their authoring tool required something, and that came to hand. On the other hand accessibility can be regarded as a binary condition - text-only, by virtue of being able to be rendered into braille, signing (for the deaf), spoken, large or small, in user-defined colours, fast or slowly, is accessible. Ergo, so is anything which degrades to text. Certain HTML elements, such as headings, lists, links, and names, are rendered by all browsers. Although their absence is not strictly speaking an accessibility problem, their proper use enhances accessibility greatly. The guidelines in fact provide for four levels of acessibility, which are quantified: If you do not follow all the Priority 1 Guidelines, then your quantum is None - your page is not accessible to everybody. If you follow all P1, but not all P2, then your page is accessible to everybody, but often there is a poor level of access provided. If you get all P1 and P2 you have a reasonable level of accessibility, and if you also follow P3 you have a good level of accessibility. Charles McCathieNevile At 06:58 a.m. 08/16/98 EDT, Lovey@aol.com wrote: Hmmm interesting - but wouldn't it strip away content too? How 'bout a META Tag (like Rsaci uses for content) to alert browsers of accessbility or non? Then On Mon, 17 Aug 1998, Kynn Bartlett wrote: > > Accessibility isn't an on-off binary condition, though. > > In fact, it's not a quantifiable state at all. > > -- > Kynn Bartlett <kynn@hwg.org> > Vice President, Marketing and Outreach, HTML Writers Guild > http://www.hwg.org > >
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