- From: Jan Richards <jan.richards@utoronto.ca>
- Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 15:30:18 -0400
- To: Charles McCathieNevile <chaals@opera.com>
- CC: Michael Cooper <cooper@w3.org>, UAAG <w3c-wai-ua@w3.org>
Hi, I agree with Charles that UAAG is effectively that list. And I think it would be very helpful to the work on UAAG 2.0 for the WCAG-WG to put together a wishlist of user agent features. Cheers, Jan Charles McCathieNevile wrote: > > On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 22:53:35 +0200, Michael Cooper <cooper@w3.org> wrote: > >> The WCAG Working Group sometimes determines that a success criterion >> would be much more easily met if only user agents supported a given >> feature. Because we only document techniques that are known to yield the >> accessibility benefit intended, we tend to have to create "workaround" >> techniques that we consider far less desirable. We are starting a "wish >> list" of user agent features that would make all our lives easier - the >> User Agent Push >> <http://trace.wisc.edu/wcag_wiki/index.php?title=User_Agent_Push> list. >> >> We'd like to know from UAAG if a similar list exists, or if it would >> make sense to collaborate on the development of such a list. We'd also >> like to work through the UAAG WG on encouraging user agent developers to >> implement some of these features. Would there be interest in this? > > The User Agent Accessibility Guidelines, as I read them, are effectively > such a list. If the WCAG group were to look carefully and select the > things that are really pain points now, and list them, or link to the > relevant bit of UAAG for each feature they want, it would help. (The one > thing listed is extremely vague at the moment. If it means being able to > navigate headers, then I am happy to report that we do it already. If it > means something else, please clarify so we can work out if we do or > don't :) ). > > Cheers > > Chaals > -- Jan Richards, M.Sc. User Interface Design Specialist Adaptive Technology Resource Centre (ATRC) Faculty of Information Studies University of Toronto Email: jan.richards@utoronto.ca Web: http://jan.atrc.utoronto.ca Phone: 416-946-7060 Fax: 416-971-2896
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