Re: FRAME Techniques (was Re: Proposed techniques for Checkpoint 2.7)

aloha, jon!

i have no problem with using a more simplified version of what i posted to the
list earlier today...  optimally, i'd like an amalgam of my and your
suggestions to be inserted, as i am concerned with the dangers of
over-tersifying techniques, but, i suppose, that at this point, it's up to you
and ian...  whatever the working group agrees conveys the necessary info in the
most efficacious manner is fine with me...

if you and ian would like, i can spin out my more verbose techniques into some
narrative for the Accessibility Topics section of the Techniques document..

gregory.

Jon wrote:
>I suggest something a little simpler:
>
>2.7.3 The following sources can be used to render information to identify a
>frame in a frame set to the user.  The sources are listed in order of
>preference:
>1. contents of the TITLE attribute of the FRAME element
>2. contents of the NAME attrribute of the FRAME element
>3. The contents of the TITLE element in the HEAD block of the referenced
>SRC attribute of the FRAME element
>4. The contents of the TITLE element in the HEAD block of the referenced
>LONGDESC attribute of the FRAME element
>5. Use content "frame X of N frames"
>
>And your right, men't to use FRAME not FRAME set in my original proposal.
>
>Jon
>
>At 03:15 PM 11/17/99 -0500, Gregory J. Rosmaita wrote:
>>aloha, jon!
>>
>>as per your proposed techniques for Checkpoint 2.7, contained in a post
>>archived at:
>>http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ua/1999OctDec/0297.html
>>i would recommend splitting your proposed technique 2.7.3
>>
>>quote
>>2.7.3. If no TITLE text is available for a FRAMESET element, render FRAME x
>>of y frames or use the TITLE information from the URL referenced by the
>>FRAMESET element
>>unquote
>>
>>into several Techniques, to wit:
>>
>>2.7.3.A. If no TITLE text is available for a FRAMESET element, use the
>>information contained in the TITLE element of the document or resource
>>referenced by the FRAMESET element to provide a TITLE for that FRAMESET
>>element.  If the resource referenced via a FRAMESET element does not
>>contain a TITLE, or if the TITLE element is empty, render "FRAME X of Y",
>>where "Y" indicates the total number of frames.
>>
>>2.7.3.B. If the LONGDESC attribute, but not the TITLE attribute, has  been
>>defined for a FRAMESET element, use the information contained in the TITLE
>>element of the document or resource referenced by the LONGDESC to provide a
>>TITLE for the FRAME.  If the resource referenced via the LONGDESC attribute
>>does not contain a TITLE, or if the TITLE element is empty, render "FRAME X
>>of Y", where "Y" indicates the total number of frames.
>>
>>2.7.3.C. If neither the TITLE nor the LONGDESC attributes have been defined
>>for a FRAMESET element, use the information contained in the TITLE element
>>of the document or resource referenced by each FRAMESET element to provide
>>a TITLE for each FRAME.  If the referenced resource does not contain a
>>TITLE, or if the TITLE element is empty, render "FRAME X of Y", where "Y"
>>indicates the total number of frames.
>>
>>2.7.3.D. If a NAME, but no TITLE or LONGDESC, has been defined for a
>>FRAMESET element, use the information contained in the TITLE element of the
>>document or resource referenced by each FRAMESET element to provide a TITLE
>>for each FRAME.  If any of the referenced resources do not contain a TITLE,
>>or if the TITLE element is empty, render the content of the NAME attribute,
>>along with orientation information that conveys the number of frames
>>contained in each FRAMESET and the number of the FRAME with focus.  For
>>example, in a FRAMESET element for which the NAME attribute has been
>>defined as "nav", render:
>>
>>      Frame name "nav" - Frame X of Y
>>
>>where Y represents the total number of frames.  NOTE: The NAME attribute
>>should only be used if (a) the FRAMESET element lacks a TITLE or LONGDESC;
>>(b) the referenced resource either lacks a TITLE element or if the TITLE
>>element contained in the referenced resource is empty; AND (c) if the user
>>has configured the user agent to use the NAME attribute as alternative
>>content for FRAMESET elements.  If the user has configured the user agent
>>to ignore the NAME attribute, then the following technique should be
>>implemented.
>>
>>2.7.3.E.  If no TITLE, LONGDESC, or NAME is defined for a FRAMESET element,
>>render "FRAME X of Y", where "Y" indicates the total number of frames
>>
>>--- end proposed techniques, begin notes and comments
>>
>>NOTE 1: i have included a technique to deal with the misuse of the NAME
>>attribute (at least in HTML4) because (at least currently) most authors of
>>framed sites use the NAME attribute, rather than the TITLE attribute when
>>defining frames.  perhaps a reference to the relevant Checkpoints and
>>Techniques that cover this issue in WCAG would also be appropriate if this
>>technique is included in the UAGL Techniques document.
>>
>>NOTE 2: i have reordered the proposed techniques, so as to illustrate
>>best-to-worst case scenarios, as well as to emphasize the correct encoding
>>of FRAMESETs
>>
>>NOTE 3: well, actually more a question for Jon than a note...  Jon, did you
>>intend the term "FRAMESET element" to cover not only the FRAMESET element
>>itself, but also all of the individual FRAME elements contained in the
>>FRAMESET?  that is my reading of your proposed techniques, and if, indeed,
>>my interpretation of the phrase "FRAMESET element" is correct, we might
>>want to hyperlink that phrase to a definition, in which it is explicitly
>>stated that by the use of the term "FRAMESET element" the document refers
>>to all of the elements defined by the HTML4 frameset.dtd
>>
>>if i am incorrect, however, i will have to reword my proposed techniques to
>>make it explicit that what is meant is individual elements defined by the
>>HTML4 frameset DTD
>>
>>NOTE 4: in reference to FRAMES, the WCAG Techniques document states:
>>
>>quote
>>4.10.4 Always make the source of a frame an HTML document
>>   Checkpoints in this section: 6.2. 
>>Content developers must provide text equivalents of frames so that their
>>contents and the relationships between frames make sense. Note that as the
>>contents of a frame change, so must change any description. This is not
>>possible if an IMG is inserted directly into a frame. Thus, content
>>developers should always make the source ("src") of a frame an HTML file.
>>Images may be inserted into the HTML file and their text alternatives will
>>evolve correctly.
>> 
>>is this something that needs to be referenced in the UAGL Techniques
>>document, or should it be addressed in the ATAG Techniques document?
>>
>>i raise the issue because i used the phrase "document or resource" in
>>several of my proposed techniques, since an author may use a FRAMESET
>>element (i.e. a FRAME element) to point to a SMIL document or an XML
>>document, and not only an HTML document...  of course, anyone who
>>references a naked image using a FRAME element should be keelhauled, but
>>that's another topic altogether!
>>
>>gregory


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