- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 10:49:34 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>
- cc: w3c-wai-ua@w3.org, danield@w3.org
sounds fine to me. As I understand it, order is not significant, but people will probably read something into it anyway. charles McCN On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Ian Jacobs wrote: Hello, I received an action item to review the order of the guidelines and propose a new order based on importance. Here are some of the criteria I used for sorting: i) Number of high priority checkpoints in the guideline ii) Semantic grouping of related guidelines iii) Rough division in two groups: a) Reduce inaccessibility b) Promote accessibility Perhaps the (a) group is more important than the (b) group. Note that this is only a rough notion. Here's the proposal: 1) Support input and output device-independence [All priority 1 checkpoints] 2) Ensure keyboard access to user agent functionalities [This one is related to device-independence and so the first two should be close.] 3) Ensure user access to document content [This one might follow the next two, but seems very important since it's about availability of content.] 4) Allow the user to turn off features that may reduce accessibility [Lots of Priority 1, but this is because the ideas are finely grained.] 5) Ensure user control over document styles [The previous two should be close] 6) Observe system conventions and standard interfaces 7) Support applicable W3C technologies and guidelines [Should be close to previous one] 8) Provide navigation mechanisms 9) Help orient the user [The previous two should be close] 10) Notify the user of document and view changes 11) Allow the user to configure the user agent 12) Provide accessible product documentation and help [Still important, but someone has to be number twelve!] - Ian Reference Document: http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/WAI-USERAGENT-19990809 -- Ian Jacobs (jacobs@w3.org) http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs Tel/Fax: +1 212 684-1814 --Charles McCathieNevile mailto:charles@w3.org phone: +1 617 258 0992 http://www.w3.org/People/Charles W3C Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI MIT/LCS - 545 Technology sq., Cambridge MA, 02139, USA
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