- From: Kitch Barnicle <kab42@columbia.edu>
- Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 09:42:34 -0500
- To: w3c-wai-ua@w3.org
So checkpoint 11.1 covers your PDF example as well as the accessibility features of HTML, CSS, and all other W3C or non-W3C technologies. And checkpoint 11.2 covers the remaining features of HTML, CSS and other W3C technologies that are not specifically for accessibility but may be helpful to people with disabilities. I think the word "appropriate" in 11.2 may be confusing if accessibility features of W3C technologies are covered under checkpoint 11.1 just checking, kitch At 10:31 AM 8/26/99 -0400, Charles McCathieNevile wrote: >You can implement the accesibility features of HTML 4.0 without implementing >the entire specification, or without. More to the point, while PDF is not a >W3C Recommendation, a user agent which renders PDF documents should support >all the accessibility features of PDF. > >Charles > >On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Kitch Barnicle wrote: > > What is the difference between checkpoint 11.1 and 11.2, which are both under > the guideline "User agents should support applicable W3C technologies and in > particular the accessibility features defined for the technology." > > > 11.1 Implement the accessibility features defined for supported technologies. > [Priority 1] > > 11.2 Support appropriate W3C Recommendations. [Priority 2] For instance, for > document markup, support HTML and XML; for style sheets, support CSS; for > mathematics, support MathML; for multimedia, support SMIL, etc. > > > Thanks, > Kitch > > >--Charles McCathieNevile <mailto:charles@w3.org>mailto:charles@w3.org >phone: +1 617 258 0992 <http://www.w3.org/People/Charles>http://www.w3.org/People/Charles >W3C Web Accessibility Initiative <http://www.w3.org/WAI>http://www.w3.org/WAI >MIT/LCS - 545 Technology sq., Cambridge MA, 02139, USA >
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