UA Test Suite comments - Checkpoints 1.1, 11.2, and 1.2

Jon,

I have reviewed the test suites for Checkpoints 1.1 and 1.2 and have the
following comments/issues:

General test suite comments:

- If we have written sample testcases to test compliance with specific
checkpoints, do you want us to send them to someone, or are your students
at the University of Illinois or Colin Koteles writing all the test cases?

- Have your students at the University of Illinois created a list of
comments about the test suites? If so, is that list published somewhere for
review? If not, could it be?

Checkpoint 1.1 Full Keyboard Access

Additional ACCESSKEY test cases could be written for LABEL, LEGEND, and MAP
AREAS. I have the same comment for Checkpoint 11.2 - Current author input
configuration.  The same testcases could be used for both checkpoints,
especially  if you combine some of the accesskey tests together.

The FRAMESET test is not self-contained on the test page, and there is no
source for the individual frames. So a tester would still have to create
more HTML to run the test.

Additional TABINDEX testcases could be written for AREA, BUTTON, OBJECT,
SELECT,  and TEXTAREA.

Changing Text Size test - how does it show compliance with Checkpoint 1.1?


Checkpoint 1.2 Activate event handlers

ONCHANGE attribute for SELECT elements test -  When the star color is
selected in the select menu, the graphic changes to the right color, but
the corresponding alt text always says "red star". The Javascript function
should also change the alt text for the test to make sense and to be an
accessible test.

ONFOCUS and ONBLUR tests could be written for SELECT elements.

ONCLICK and ONDBLCLICK tests should be written for some normally
activatable elements (A, AREA, INPUT of all types, BUTTON, TEXTAREA,
SELECT, OBJECT, OPTION) plus a few other types of non-activatable elements
in addition to IMG,  like H1, TD, TH, or LI.

For ONMOUSEOVER, ONMOUSEOUT tests, the tester should be able to hear
something different as well as see something different for the mouseover
event. For example,  the alt text could also change when the "Lamp is
turned on."  A pop-up menu is a more common and useful example, and there
should be onmouseover event tests for some normally activatable elements
(A, AREA, INPUT of all types, BUTTON, TEXTAREA, SELECT, OBJECT, OPTION)
plus other types of non-activatable elements in addition to IMG,  like H1,
TD, TH, or LI.  There should also be a test for ONMOUSEMOVE.

There should be tests for ONKEYPRESS, ONKEYDOWN, and ONKEYUP.


Cathy Laws

IBM Accessibility Center, WW Strategic Platform Enablement
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Received on Thursday, 20 February 2003 10:48:34 UTC