- From: Jon Gunderson <jongund@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 09:31:16 -0500
- To: w3c-wai-ua@w3.org, w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
- Cc: Jason White <jasonw@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au>
Issue #1: The use of MAP for marking groups of links. A. Conventions for accessible usage B. Labeling the group of links (i.e. use title?, class?, name? or block element labels...) C. Can map be used for more than indicating groups of links? Recent proposal for MAP techniques by Wendy Chisholm : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ua/2000AprJun/0016.html ===================== Issue #2: Marking up blocks (chunks) of information Problem: Many sites have navigation bars, advertising, search forms and then a changing content area(s). For people using speech when they move between pages in these sites they often think they have not gone anywhere, since the pages all sound the same at the beginning. My questions are: A. What ways (if any) are there to mark up blocks of information for improved navigation B. What can be done by authors (using some type of navigation links like MAP)? C. What markup will be required to be recognized and processed by user agents? ================ The techniques for the following checkpoints in the User Agent Guidelines relate to navigation: 7.3 Allow the user to navigate all active elements. [Priority 1] 7.4 Allow the user to choose to navigate only active elements. [Priority 2] 7.6 Allow the user to navigate according to structure. [Priority 2] 7.7 Allow the user to configure structured navigation. [Priority 3] 8.4 To help the user decide whether to follow a link, make available link information supplied by the author and computed by the user agent. [Priority 3] IMPACT: The results of this discussion could affect the minimum requirements for satisfying one or more these checkpoints. Jon Jon Gunderson, Ph.D., ATP Coordinator of Assistive Communication and Information Technology Chair, W3C WAI User Agent Working Group Division of Rehabilitation - Education Services College of Applied Life Studies University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign 1207 S. Oak Street, Champaign, IL 61820 Voice: (217) 244-5870 Fax: (217) 333-0248 E-mail: jongund@uiuc.edu WWW: http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~jongund WWW: http://www.w3.org/wai/ua
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