Belated HTML WG last-call comments to User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0

Checkpoint 2.9: "Allow configuration to render all conditional content
automatically." If the <object> element of HTML is included under
'conditional content', then this checkpoint would change the semantics of
the <object> element, which is designed to select one of a number of
options.

Checkpoint 5.4: repetition of the word 'event'.

Checkpoints 6.1 to 6.4 DOM
As these sections stand it reads as if a UA is *required to* support DOM,
not "if the document has an API, that API should be/include DOM". We do not
understand the requirement that forces a UA to include a scripting interface
if it is to be even level A compliant, but maybe this is just a lack of
clarity of the text.

Guideline 9: Navigation. If you are looking at a frameset, and only one
frame has a scroll bar, you shouldn't need to have to select that frame in
order to do a [page down]. So it would be good to have a checkpoint that
says that if an action is obvious/unambiguous in the context, it should not
be necessary to have to select the only viewport to which it could apply.

End of comments

Best wishes,

Steven Pemberton
For HTML WG

Received on Monday, 21 May 2001 10:49:07 UTC