- From: <claws@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 14:11:07 -0600
- To: w3c-wai-ua@w3.org
Below are some comments and questions that have come up as we (IBM Special Needs) looked at the February 10th UA Guidelines while re-evaluating our Home Page Reader product. Our comments are preceded by CL. 4.1.4 [Priority 2] Follow operating system conventions for user interface design, user agent configuration (including configuration profiles), product installation and documentation, and accessibility flags and interfaces. CL: Could you define accessibility flags? 4.4.12 [Priority 1] Allow the user to turn on and off support for spawned windows. CL: Are there any user agents today that provide this control feature? 4.4.13 [Priority 3] Allow the user to turn on and off automatic page forwarding. CL: Is this referring to when there is a link that is automatically activated after a script-specified amount of time? Are there any user agents today that provide this control feature? 5.3.3 [Priority 1] Allow the user to search for a link based on its attribute values. 5.5.4 [Priority 1] Allow the user to search for a form control based on its attribute values. CL: I have seen several questions about which attribute values but no answers. We are really interested in knowing which specific attribute values an end user would be interested in searching for. Should these checkpoints really be a priority 1? 5.3.4 [Priority 1] Allow the user to move the focus to a link based on its integer (tabbing-order) position. CL: I assume this means, for example, moving directly to link 5 out of 25 links on a page. Do users really consider this a priority 1 type of feature? 5.3.8 [Priority 1] Allow the user to navigate among elements with associated long descriptions. 5.3.9 [Priority 2] Allow the user to search linked long description text (i.e., in another document). In case of a match, the focus should be moved to the link in the current document. CL: Why would a user want to navigate just among elements with long descriptions or search for text that is just in long descriptions? I don't think users would think of elements with long descriptions as a set or collection of elements like they think of links, tables, or forms. They may think of images with their ALT text and long descriptions as a set. Even so, I don't think 5.3.8 is a Priority 1. 6.2.4 [Priority 2] Allow the user to navigate sequentially among block elements (e.g., paragraphs, lists and list items, etc.) CL: Can this checkpoint fully define block elements for clarification? Cathy Laws IBM Special Needs Systems Development E-mail: claws@us.ibm.com
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