- From: Jon Gunderson <jongund@uiuc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 09:24:00 -0600
- To: Al Gilman <asgilman@iamdigex.net>, "Ian B. Jacobs" <ij@w3.org>
- Cc: w3c-wai-ua@w3.org
I think we should get a link on the section508 to WAI activities or at least to UAAG when we get a good comparision of UAAG and 508 available. Jon At 03:38 PM 1/24/2002 -0500, Al Gilman wrote: >At 01:40 PM 2002-01-24 , Ian B. Jacobs wrote: > > > > > >> 4. UAAG vs. 508 comparison > > > > > >No progress here from my end. I am hoping that JG > >and I will have a chance to talk about an XML or > >RDF representation of relationships between the > >two documents. I would like two documents at > >some point: > > > > a) "If you satisfy 508 requirements and these X > > extra things, you can get UAAG 1.0 Level A > > (for the following content types labels, etc.)." > > > > b) "If you conform to UAAG 1.0 in the following way, > > you also conform to 508 if you do these extra > > things." > > > >I think that UAAG 1.0 and Section 508 are sufficiently > >different that documents a and b may be suprisingly > >different. > > > >AG:: > >People are populating the template that describes how their products address >the 508 provisions. If you want to think about what we really want we want >them to be able to publish one page that serves both questions. > >So: a key report generator application is one that gathers these pages and >presents the information contained there appropriately for UAAG-driven >queries. > >One way to get a more robust engine is to kick ideas around in ER. There is >technology and tool-building capability lurking there and susceptible to >recruiting for the right compliance assessment tasks. > >And we should be coordinating with BuyAccessible at Section508.gov. They want >to be able to treat the template-following pages that live on the Web as a >database, too. If people should actually be putting these pages up in some >strict flavor of HTML for post-processing into the BuyAccessible database, it >will help 508.gov and it will help us. Or they may have an XML or other >data-entry format for submission to the database that we can learn from. > >Al > > > _ Ian > > > >-- > >Ian Jacobs (ij@w3.org) ><http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs>http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs > >Tel: +1 718 260-9447 > > 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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