- From: Poehlman, David <David.Poehlman@usmint.treas.gov>
- Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 14:51:16 -0400
- To: "'Jon Gunderson'" <jongund@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>, barnicle@trace.wisc.edu
- Cc: "'w3c-wai-ua@w3.org'" <w3c-wai-ua@w3.org>
by all means, this is often the place at which interaction with the software begins and also that uponwhich much training is based. I could live with that,. What do other people think? How about you Kitch, you have always taken an interest in documentation issues. Jon At 11:52 AM 8/18/2000 -0400, Ian Jacobs wrote: >Jon Gunderson wrote: > > > > 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. > >How about the following relative expression of the checkpoint: > > Provide a version of the product documentation that > conforms to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines > 1.0 [WCAG10]. [Priority 1 for Level A conformance, Priority 2 > for Level Double-A conformance, Priority 3 for Level Triple-A > conformance.] > >1) This isn't too long or complicated. >2) The implication is that if you want to be a level Double-A > conforming UA, your documentation has to conform to WCAG 1.0 > level A. If you want to be a Triple-AAA UA, your documentation > has to be Triple-AAA WCAG. > > I think that the real implication there is that there will > never be any Triple-AAA user agents... > >3) The best documentation is no documentation (i.e., the > user interface is so good you don't need any)! > > - Ian > > > > 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 > > > >-- >Ian Jacobs (jacobs@w3.org) http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs >Tel: +1 831 457-2842 >Cell: +1 917 450-8783 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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