- From: Jon Gunderson <jongund@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 09:06:29 -0500
- To: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>, Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>
- Cc: "Hansen, Eric" <ehansen@ets.org>, "'w3c-wai-ua@w3.org'" <w3c-wai-ua@w3.org>
I would prefer to define double-A conformance for checkpoint 11.1 and see if we get any comments during last call. My justification for double-A is that if the user cannot easily access the documentation, they may not be able to find out how to use the user agent or make adjustments to improve accessibility. Therefore I feel we can hold the documentation to a higher standard in UAAG. Jon At 12:23 AM 8/18/2000 -0400, Charles McCathieNevile wrote: >Well, I would vote for a relative priority as used in ATAG. It seems odd to >have a triple-A tool where the documentation has removed the absolute >barriers, but not the significant impediments, to using the documentation. > >Charles > >On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Ian Jacobs wrote: > > Ian Jacobs wrote: > > > > "Hansen, Eric" wrote: > > > > New: > > > > > > "11.1 Provide a version of the product documentation that conforms to > > > level-A of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 [WCAG10]. > [Priority 1] > > > Note: User agents may provide documentation in many formats, but at > least > > > one must conform to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 > [WCAG10]." > > > > > > Note that I have only required level-A conformance. I don't think > that level > > > triple-A is appropriate at all; Priority 3 checkpoint "may" help > people with > > > disabilities. Double-A conformance might be warranted. > > > > > > I think that we need to minimize such interpendencies. > > > > It's my opinion that we don't have to say this since to conform at > > all to WCAG 1.0 you must conform at least a level-A. However, if people > > feel that saying level-A explicitly clarifies the minimal requirement, > > I'm ok with this proposal. > > I would go further to say that this is an editorial clarification > and I will add it to the next draft (with a note that the WG has > not confirmed this proposal). Since we have not specified to date > which particular level of WCAG conformance is required, it follows > that the minimal level is WCAG Level-A. > > If there is any opposition to Level-A being the minimal level > of conformance for this checkpoint, please speak up. > > _ Ian > > > > >-- >-- >Charles McCathieNevile mailto:charles@w3.org phone: +61 (0) 409 134 136 >W3C Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI >Location: I-cubed, 110 Victoria Street, Carlton VIC 3053 >Postal: GPO Box 2476V, Melbourne 3001, Australia Jon Gunderson, Ph.D., ATP Coordinator of Assistive Communication and Information Technology Division of Rehabilitation - Education Services MC-574 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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