- From: Jon Gunderson <jongund@staff.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 12:28:54 -0600
- To: Neal Ewers <ewers@tracecenter.org>, mark novak <menovak@facstaff.wisc.edu>, w3c-wai-ua@w3.org
Neil, In the discussion at the December Face-to-face meeting these exact arguements were presented in defence of documentation accessibility issue being a priority 1. I don't know of anybody in the working group that doesn't think that accessible documentation is not important. The consensus of the group on level 2 was based on based on the following idea. If a company was chosing between making the documentation more accessible and adding improved keyboard support, what would you want the developer to do? If both are priority 1 then to the developer they are equally important. So we want to limit the priority 1 to items that are most critical for implementations. In most cases the user can still use the user agent even if the documentation is not completely accessible. Remember a priority 2 still indicates very difficult, while priority 1 means impossible. The issue is closed and can only be reopened if new information is provided to the group on why the status should be changed. You can review the discussion of the the F2F meeting at: http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/1998/12/wai-ua-f2f-19981211.html#gl34 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
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