- From: Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 18:30:27 -0400
- To: w3c-wai-ua@w3.org
Hello, I've published a new draft of the User Agent Guidelines, available at [1]. The techniques document that goes with it is at [2]. The techniques document is largely empty today. Please bring your ideas about fleshing it out to the face-to-face meeting in Minneapolis. It is difficult to summarize the changes in this draft of the guidelines since there have been many. I recommend that people review the entire guidelines document to verify whether changes they requested were made. If not, please inform the editors. Aside from general editing, some of the main changes include: - Section 2: General principles of accessible design. The number of principles in this section has been reduced to 6 in the hopes of making them weightier. - Section 3: Terms and definitions. There is language that the definitions are meant to make the guidelines useful, but not more than that. The definitions have been tightened up. "Point of regard" has been added, but it is not fully defined yet (it may come from one of insertion point, user selection, or focus). - The guidelines now have more rationale/background information - The techniques are now written with a consistent voice. - Each technique links to its "expansion" in the techniques document. As noted above, not many of the techniques are discussed more fully in the current release. - There are techniques for scripts in 5.2 and 6.5 - In this release, the Postscript, PDF, and text versions of both the guidelines and techniques documents are available (from links at the beginning of each document). All comments are encouraged. - Ian and Jon [1] http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/WD-WAI-USERAGENT-19981019/ [2] http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/WD-WAI-USERAGENT-19981019/wai-useragent-tech -- Ian Jacobs (jacobs@w3.org) Tel/Fax: (212) 684-1814 http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs
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