Re: Rating UA guidelines

JRG responses:
>Two comments about the proposed setup:
>1. The GL rating P3 wa changed to 'this guideline may be implemented
>to improve access...' giving a MUST/SHOULD/MAY classification which
>could be related directly to the three priority grades. Should UA be
>looking at something similar?

JRG: I think we are currently using "impossible", "difficult" and "easier"
to describe our three levels.  I like them better than must, should, may
for UA.

>
>2. The 'compatibility with assistive technology' sounds pretty woolly
>to me. Are we talking about stuff that we ought to be expecting from
>the DOM being passed from the browser itself to the assistive
>technology, or  are we asking everyone to implement Microsoft's Active
>Accessibility, or some other standard already in existence? It seems
>to me that we should be specifying a standard interface for functions
>we are not requiring of the browser itself.

We cannot specify any particular technique, but the new techniques document
(to be made public to the group this week) can recommend a range of ways to
implement a particular guideline.  I think we want to let deveolpers find
their own solutions to a given guideline, but we do want to make it clear
in the guideline the funcaitonality that is needed.  I think the techniques
document is critical in giving direction to the implementation process and
coordinating efforts between mainstrem browsers and 3rd party assistive
technology.  I think it would be very difficult, if not impossible, to say
to a develper you need to do it just like this.


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Jon Gunderson, Ph.D., ATP
Coordinator of Assistive Communication and Information Technology
Division of Rehabilitation - Education Services
University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign
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Received on Monday, 12 October 1998 13:36:32 UTC