- From: Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 15:47:00 -0400
- To: Jon Gunderson <jongund@uiuc.edu>
- CC: Al Gilman <asgilman@iamdigex.net>, "Chairs of the WCA, UA, ER-IG, ER-WG and PF groups" <w3c-wai-cg@w3.org>, w3c-wai-er-ig@w3.org, w3c-wai-ua@w3.org
Jon Gunderson wrote: > > Response in JRG: > > >Discussion: > > > >The WCA and UA working groups met in joint session earlier and decided "use > >the MAP element, and not a reserved CLASS value, to group the 'groups of > >related links' discussed in WCAG Checkpoint 13.6. > > > >There appears to be some divergence of opinion as to whether that meeting > >identified special UA processing for these MAP elements as opposed to other > >major structural elements or not. WCA and UA could clarify on this point. > > JRG: The UA group has not been as a group particularly interested in having > a separate checkpoint(s) for access to markup that is used to indicate > navigational links. But that was before we have been working on the > minimal requirements for each checkpoint. It maybe of some interest in UA > to discuss this again. But I hesitate do to the current number of open > issues the group is trying to resolve. I don't think we should have an explicit requirement for handling MAP. I think that the HTML spec should include suggested user agent capabilities to handle this, rather than putting these requirements in the UA Guidelines. - Ian -- Ian Jacobs (jacobs@w3.org) http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs Tel: +1 831 457-2842 Cell: +1 917 450-8783
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