- From: Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 18:00:07 -0400
- To: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- CC: schwer@us.ibm.com, w3c-wai-ua@w3.org
Charles McCathieNevile wrote: > > I think there should be some slight rewording: > > 8.5 allow the user to search for renderable content I don't agree. What's renderable? Text in comments? Text hidden by style sheets? Attribute values - if so which ones in XML? My browser doesn't let me search for what I don't know is there. A browser could offer another search mechanism for say, attributes alone that aren't rendered, but we opted not to include attribute-specific search checkpoints. > and I am not sure if it is a P1 or not so lone as the ability to find it > manually by reading the document is already provided elsewhere. I think according to the definition of Priority 1, this one doesn't qualify. Information is available, even if it's not convenient. So in that sense it's priority 2. > 8.4 Allow the user to navigate among only the active elements in the document I see your point, although I would propose "just among" instead. - Ian > If it is already possible to navigate each element individually, and know > what type of element it is (or at least whether it is an active type of > element) then I think this is a P2 requirement. It seems to be well > established that it is a P2 requirement for blind users and for people with > limited mobility (which could go into a user impact matrix) > Charles McCN > > On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Ian Jacobs wrote: > > schwer@us.ibm.com wrote: > > > > Sections 8.4 and 8.5 should be a priority 1 requirement. > > Just to quote them from the 9 August draft [1]: > > 8.4 Allow the user to navigate among all active elements > in the document. [Priority 2] > > 8.5 Allow the user to search for rendered text content, > including alternative text content. [Priority 2] > > [1] 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 -- Ian Jacobs (jacobs@w3.org) http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs Tel/Fax: +1 212 684-1814
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