- From: Chuck Letourneau <cpl@starlingweb.com>
- Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 12:29:10 -0400
- To: McCathieNevile - Charles <charles@w3.org>
- Cc: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Hi Charles...
Just my personal opinion, but the rollovers I found at
http://www.abletv.net fall into my category of "items, actions or images
that convey no critical information", in that no content is being
served. Furthermore, in most (all?) graphical browsers, the sighted
non-mouse user has other indications that the current link is the focus
(e.g. the link is underlined, outlined, etc.). The same is true for people
who use graphical browsers with images turned off, those who have disabled
scripting, and those who use non-graphical browsers . Thus, I think that
the importance of providing an alternate for simple rollovers is diminished
(when compared with providing alternates for menus or other content that
appears as a result of a keyboard or mouse event). Thus, from the
"compliance-with-WCAG" point of view AbleTV fails, while from a usability
perspective (in my opinion) the omission is "access-neutral".
However, I feel strongly that page developers should (must) get into the
habit of enabling device independent triggers on all suitable scripts in
spite of the problems with the current crop of event-handlers noted earlier
on the IG list.
Regards,
Chuck Letourneau
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