- From: James Allan <allan_jm@tsb1.tsbvi.edu>
- Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 15:12:22 -0500
- To: w3c-wai-ua@w3.org
At the face to face meeting in Toronto, the WCAG were discussed. It was also discussed that the User Agent group (guidelines)should address user agent dependencies specifically mentioned in the WCAG. Below is a listing of all WCAG checkpoints that say "...until user agents ..." can do some function. 1.2 Provide redundant text links for each active region of an image map. [Priority 1 - if server-side image maps are used, Priority 2 - if client-side image maps are used. Redundant text links for client-side image maps are only required until user agents render text equivalents for the map links.] 6.4 For scripts and applets, until user agents provide device-independent means to activate event handlers, ensure that event handlers are keyboard operable. 7.1 Until user agents allow users to control it, avoid causing the screen to flicker. 7.2 Until user agents allow users to control it, avoid causing content to blink (i.e., change presentation at a regular rate, such as turning on and off). 7.3 Until user agents allow users to freeze moving content, avoid movement in pages. 7.4 Until user agents provide the ability to stop the refresh, do not create periodically auto-refreshing pages. 10.1 Until user agents allow users to turn off spawned windows, do not cause pop-ups or other windows to appear and do not change the current window without informing the user. 10.3 Until user agents or assistive technologies render side-by-side text correctly, provide a linear text alternative (on the current page or some other) for all tables that lay out text in parallel, word-wrapped columns. 10.4 Until user agents handle empty controls correctly, include default, place-holding characters in edit boxes and text areas. 13.6 Group related links, identify the group (for user agents), and, until user agents do so, provide a way to bypass the group. Jim Allan, Statewide Technical Support Specialist Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired 1100 W. 45th St., Austin, Texas 78756 voice 512.206.9315 fax: 512.206.9453 http://www.tsbvi.edu/ "We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us." McLuhan, 1964
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