- From: Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 16:33:51 -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: > > Ian, > A requirement in the UA guidelines (if any) would be a special case > checkpoints of checkpoint 7.6. Two potential checkpoints would deal with > directly moving to the list of navigation links and/or skipping them. For > example: > > "Provide one step access to the collection of links that have been > identified by the author for navigation [Priority 3]" The UA issues list includes a new issue 303 [1]. This issue will involve a proposal to list explicitly for checkpoint 7.6 those elements in HTML 4 we mean. This list would include MAP. Therefore, I don't think a new checkpoint is necessary since the user can get to the MAP as part of structured navigation. I don't know why one-step navigation to a MAP is more important than one-step navigation to H1s. [1] http://cmos-eng.rehab.uiuc.edu/ua-issues/issues-linear.html#303 > "Provide a one step to skip a collection of navigational links that have > been identified by the author [Priority 3]" This is also part of checkpoint 7.6 as is since you can simply move to the next main element away from the MAP. - Ian > The reference to MAP would be in the techniques document as the best way to > indicate a collection of navigational links in HTML. The UAAG techniques > document could just reference the WCAG techniques on this issue. Other > markup languages would have other techniques. > > Jon > > At 03:47 PM 7/19/2000 -0400, Ian Jacobs wrote: > >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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