- From: <schwer@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 16:09:00 -0600
- To: Jon Gunderson <jongund@staff.uiuc.edu>
- cc: w3c-wai-ua@w3.org
>1.By eliminating the pass/fail conformance test, it promotes accessibility and does not punish user agent developers. My recommendations would be that: - The checkpoints defined as a list of of checkpoints for each of the four disability groups (Vision, Mobility, Hearing, and Cognitive). This is needed for regulation and for developers. - The checkpoints themselves should be defined by the type of user agent you are. A checkpoint example would be if you you are browser, you should provide an API to acquire a Tables caption. If you are a blind assistive technology, you should provide a way to speak the caption. If not, you fail the division category scorecard. - Duplicate checkpoints apply where checkpoints apply to more than one disability group. This approach provides for regulation compliance without penalizing User Agents for specific assistive technologies that the UA's are not designed to support. It does provide credit to browser manufacturers that to provide the requried API. It also requires browser compliance to browser UA guidelines per disability. This helps users make an informed decision as to the types of UA solutions they will use. Rich Rich Schwerdtfeger Lead Architect, IBM Special Needs Systems EMail/web: schwer@us.ibm.com http://www.austin.ibm.com/sns/rich.htm "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.", Frost Jon Gunderson <jongund@staff.uiuc.edu> on 01/07/99 09:55:47 AM To: w3c-wai-ua@w3.org cc: (bcc: Richard Schwerdtfeger/Austin/IBM) Subject: PROPOSED RESOLUTION: Conformance and user agent types The proposed resolution to the conformance and user aget types issue can be found in the telecon minutes at the following URL: http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/1999/01/wai-ua-telecon-19990106.html#action Please review and comment on your agreement, modifications or disagreement the proposed resolution by early next week. If no modifications or disagreements are received by next week this issue will be considered CLOSED. Jon 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 Champaign, IL 61820 Voice: 217-244-5870 Fax: 217-333-0248 E-mail: jongund@uiuc.edu WWW: http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~jongund http://www.als.uiuc.edu/InfoTechAccess
Received on Friday, 8 January 1999 17:15:49 UTC