- From: <thatch@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Sat, 6 Mar 1999 21:39:39 -0600
- To: Al Gilman <asgilman@iamdigex.net>
- cc: w3c-wai-ua@w3.org
I am astonished! Al Gilman wrote: >The critical failure in Lynx was when people could not find SUBMIT buttons even >though they clearly said SUBMIT in the rendered text. That sounds like a Lynx problem. If they are submit buttons, then 'submit' should be rendered by the user agent and thus be found in a standard page search (find). It was incredible to consider 'searching on attribute values' as a priorty one item, even more to know the reason. Jim Thatcher IBM Special Needs Systems www.ibm.com/sns thatch@us.ibm.com (512)838-0432 Al Gilman <asgilman@iamdigex.net> on 03/06/99 07:30:13 PM To: Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>, Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org> cc: Jon Gunderson <jongund@staff.uiuc.edu>, Catherine Laws/Austin/IBM, w3c-wai-ua@w3.org (bcc: James Thatcher/Austin/IBM) Subject: Re: Comments and questions on latest UA guidelines At 04:10 PM 3/6/99 -0500, Ian Jacobs wrote: > >Charles McCathieNevile wrote: >> >> Some comment/response pairs snipped entirely. My annotations begin CMN: >> >> >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? >> >> CMN: probably not. (In my opinion). This capability may be more critical than it at first appears. The critical failure in Lynx was when people could not find SUBMIT buttons even though they clearly said SUBMIT in the rendered text. It turns out that the text 'SUBMIT' was not content but an element attribute. Anything that is going to show should be included in the text which can be found by a search. I don't know how to reword the checkpoint right away but this is the capability that may yet merit Priority 1. Al
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