Re: Proposed changes to Guideline 7

>> 
>> JRG: I think that the navigation of the document tree is just one
>> techniques and that it we should just have one checkpoint stating:
>> "Allow the user to navigate all elements in the document."
>> Priority: 1
>
>> The tree navigation would be described as one way to acheive this.
>
>Would this be for dependent user agents only? I don't think
>it's a Priority 1 since you can get at content through other means.
>I think perhaps Priority 2. 
>
>My question remains on this point: what accessibility barriers
>fall by being able to navigate all elements? Or is this for the
>techniques document?

JRG: I think it is one of the biggest and most fundamental problems the
guidelines need to address, especially for visually impaired user to
navigate (and identify) elements with in a document.  Try using a screen
reader to read a document.  I think this should be a priority one for
dependent user agents.  Since this would include navigation to active
elements as well.

>
>
>> >   a) Do we search on the document source or rendered content?
>> >      At the teleconf, the Working Group expressed consensus that
>> >      searching should be on rendered content only (recall: rendered
>> >      does not mean only that which is in the viewport, but the
>> >      entire document as rendered).
>> 
>> JRG: I think we say the text content of elements.  With scripting some text
>> content may not be rendered unless the user takes acton or turns off
>> support for style sheets.
>
>I guess we should ask these questions:
>
> a) Are we talking about all user agents or dependent only?
> b) Should users be able to search text hidden by style sheets?
> c) Should users be able to search text in attribute values if not
>    rendered?

JRG: I think we should have three checkpoints related to searching and use
the techniques document to highlight all of the possible choices and
combinations related to functional searching.  

Checkpoint 1: Allow the user to search the text content of a document
(both, P1)

Checkpoint 2: Allow the user to search the alternative content of a
document (both, P2)

Checkpoint 3: Allow the user to search the element attributes of a document
(Dependent user agents only, P3)

In the TECHNIQUES document related to searching this would be the major
techniques that I would like to see (others could add to this list):
1. Text content of elements (maybe I don't understand the technical jargon
for this, but I mean the text between the element<element>XXX YYY
ZZZZ</element>.  The basic type of search does not need to include
searching attribute information.

2. Text associated with alternative content or summary information with is
mainly in attributes: TITLE, ALT, SUMMARY attributes

3. A function that could look at the current attributes and element and
look for the additional text content with the same type of element and
attribute.  The scope of samness could be configurable by the user.

4. Users could also configure what type of elements and attribute
information they would like to have as a part of the "standard" search.


Jon Gunderson, Ph.D., ATP
Coordinator of Assistive Communication and Information Technology
Division of Rehabilitation - Education Services
University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign
1207 S. Oak Street
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Received on Friday, 18 June 1999 11:28:37 UTC