RE: Understanding WCAG 2.0: Updates in progress

Thanks Gregg,  it’s interesting that they call out 1.4.4 as an exception as
this SC is one the few that has sufficient techniques that rely on
“accessibility features” in the user agent.  In fact the text in
Understanding WCAG 2 document touts the benefits of using fluid layouts
thus allowing for enlarged text that does NOT require horizontal scrolling
– but then allows the SC to be met by user agents that compensate for fixed
fonts and container sizes by scrolling the entire page content.  As someone
with a visual impairment – enlarge text without adding horizontal scrolling
versus enabling zoom which automatically forces horizontal scrolling are
two extremely different levels of access.  The understanding document also
mentions that Firefox cannot be used to meet the requirement – although it
supports both types of zooming – text only and full page.    In fact, user
agents like Chrome, Firefox, and IE zoom pages differently depending on
whether fixed sizes are used or not.  For example, a trip to
http://www.wtop.com with zoom simply zooms the screen and contents and
increases the horizontal screen using these browsers.  However, a view of
the WCAG 2.0 page with zoom enabled actually zooms the text and does not
materially increase the horizontal width.  Yet both of the pages would pass
this success criteria.  I’m not sure this was the intention when this SC
was created.



Jonathan



*From:* Gregg Vanderheiden [mailto:gv@trace.wisc.edu]
*Sent:* Thursday, August 02, 2012 10:09 AM
*To:* Jonathan Avila
*Cc:* WAI Interest Group
*Subject:* Re: Understanding WCAG 2.0: Updates in progress



This is clarifying something that has always been true.



Bear in mind however that a site cannot assume that AT in general will do
this for users just because one piece of software does something.   These
are not user specs but specs for web content to be viewed by many different
users with different AT>



Note that they Understanding WCAG 2.0  doc is out for comment -- so you can
also ask questions that way if you feel there is an error.



*Gregg*

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Professor Industrial & Systems Engineering
and Biomedical Engineering
University of Wisconsin-Madison


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and the Global Public Inclusive Infrastructure Project
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On Aug 1, 2012, at 9:04 AM, Jonathan Avila <jon.avila@ssbbartgroup.com>
wrote:



>From SC 4.1.1 in the latest editors draft of Understanding WCAG 2.0

begin add]
Note 2: With the exception of one success criterion ( Understanding Success
Criterion 1.4.4 Resize text, which specifically mentions that the effect
specified by the success criterion must be achieved without relying on an
assistive technology) authors can meet the success criteria with content
that assumes use of an assistive technology (or access features in use
agents) by the user, where such assistive technologies (or access features
in user agents) exist and are available to the user.
[end add]

Could anyone with knowledge of this change provide some background on this?
The change appears to allow assistive technology to correct incorrect or
incomplete tags and therefore allow a site to be conformant based on
assistive technology correcting these issues.  One example that comes to
mind is that JAWS dynamically modifies embedded Flash objects to change the
wmode parameter to "window" instead of "opaque".

Best Regards,

Jonathan

-----Original Message-----
From: Shawn Henry [mailto:shawn@w3.org]
Sent: Friday, July 27, 2012 10:45 AM
To: WAI Interest Group
Subject: Understanding WCAG 2.0: Updates in progress

Dear WAI Interest Group,

The WCAG Working Group is currently updating a supporting document for WCAG
2.0: Understanding WCAG 2.0. (This is not an update to WCAG 2.0, which is a
stable document.) The supporting documents are W3C Working Group Notes, and
they are updated periodically to reflect current practices and technologies.
The existing Understanding WCAG 2.0 document remains in place as a Note
while the separate Editors' Draft is updated and reviewed, and the Working
Group addresses comments.

An updated Editors' Draft is available from:
http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/2012/WD-UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20-20120726/

Most of the updates in this Editors' Draft are clarifying the Intent of
success criteria. Changes since the January 2012 published version are
highlighted in a diff-marked version at:
http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/2012/WD-UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20-20120726/complete-diff.html

The Working Group expects to provide another updated Editors' Draft for
review in the coming months, and early comments on these updates are
welcome. Please send any comments via web form or e-mail, per the
Instructions for Commenting on WCAG 2.0 Documents at:
http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG20/comments/

For an introduction to the WCAG documents, see the WCAG Overview at:
http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/wcag.php

Please let us know if you have any questions. Thank you in advance for your
comments.
Feel free to circulate this message to other lists; please avoid
cross-postings where possible.

Regards,
~Shawn Henry, WAI Outreach
Gregg Vanderheiden and Loretta Guarino Reid, WCAG Co-Chairs Michael Cooper,
W3C Staff Contact




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