- From: Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 06 Dec 1999 21:17:25 -0500
- To: w3c-wai-ua@w3.org
Hello, I've published the 6 December Guidelines [1] and Techniques [2] documents. The list of changes is online [3] (and is pasted below). Most of the changes in this draft of the Guidelines were editorial (and there were many!). Non-editorial issues are indicated in the issues list [4] for discussion at the face-to-face in Austion [5]. Comments welcome, - Ian [1] http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/WD-WAI-USERAGENT-19991206 [2] http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/WD-WAI-USERAGENT-TECHS-19991206 [3] http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/wai-ua-wd-changes.html [4] http://cmos-eng.rehab.uiuc.edu/ua-issues/issues-linear.html [5] http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/1999/12/ua-agenda ------------------ Changes to Guidelines A number of editorial changes were made based on Eric Hansen comments. Changes include: * New Abstract text. More about scope of Guidelines. * New Introduction structure. Also, new text in 1.1 Benefits to Accessibility to distinguish accessibility issues from design benefits. * Guideline titles shortened per Gregg Vanderheiden suggestion. Guideline subheads edited to make up for shorter titles. * Guidelines now identify more clearly which checkpoints address user interface accessibility and which address content accessibility. This has resulted in some checkpoint renumbering (old-to-new-number map not provided yet). * Added more information about the non-normative nature of the Techniques in the Techniques Document. * Edits to Guideline 1 rationale. * Edited Guideline 2 subhead and rationale. * New I18N related notes after checkpoint 2.2. * Checkpoint 2.9 text on natural language change notification clarified. * The "applicability" section is now more visible under 1.7 Conformance. The term "native" has been subsumed by the applicability section. * Added more notes about which checkpoints are special cases of other checkpoints.(e.g., 5.4 is special case of 5.3). * Edited Guideline 3 rationale. * To checkpoint 4.11, added note that UA may not be able to control playback rate for all formats. * Fixed bug in 4.17 checkpoint text. * Added note to checkpoint 5.4 about availability of input config through APIs. * Edits Guideline 7 rationale. * Checkpoints 7.6 and 7.7 have new notes about system conventions for focus and selection. * Edits Guideline 8 rationale. * Moved note after 11.3 to Guideline 11 rationale. Also, some edits to Guideline 11 rationale. * New clarifying note in 11.4 * Term "alternative content" has been replaced by "alternative equivalent". "Alternative text" has been replaced by "text equivalent". The glossary defines both. * Replaced "motor" by "disability" except one occurrence. * Replaced "impairment" by "disability". * "Continuous equivalent" has been replaced by the more specific captions + auditory description. * Added abbreviation expansions to key terms. * "Braille" instead of (small "b") "braille". * "closed captions" to "captions" with clarification in definition. * Some glossary structure clarification. In the glossary, modified definitions of Assistive Technology, Natural Language, Content, Equivalent, Text Transcript, Auditory Description, Captions, User Styles, Author Styles, selection, focus, point of regard, and insertion point. * New references: [SPEAK2WRITE], [CHARMOD], [BRAILLEFORMATS] * Removed some references to DOM2 event model since may be for DOM3. Need more info. Changes to Techniques * Improved reference style and links directly to the pertinent parts of other specs. * Created linear version of NN keymap table. Added an empty line to show no key access to documentation. * Added a lot of techniques!
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