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Thread: Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Extensions to Internet Explorer that support people with disabilities and functional testing for accessibility
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From: Jon Gunderson
Date: Tue, Mar 09 2004 10:47AM
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Extensions to Internet Explorer that support people with disabilities and functional testing for accessibility
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Clarification to what this extension to Internet Explorer does.
It does not make web content more accessible, it only makes web browsers more accessible by providing features that extend IE to allow all users to view and navigate the accessible markup. These IE extensions are only going to be most useful if authors follow WCAG recommendations sot that:
1. Link text does make sense out context. For examples a list of "click here" is useless, but this tool helps authors see there links out of context, so they can tell if the link text does provide meaningful information about a link.
2. MAP elements can be used with standard text links (not just the more popular use with AREA elements and images) to indicate collections of related links. This tool will allow people to navigate to those collections of links and to view information about those collections. Again without the author including these MAP elements to indicate collections of links, the feature is useless.
3. Headers is again something authors need to include for the list of headers functions to have any use.
In summary this extensino is not to remove authors responsibility to create accesible markup, but to reward authors who do create accessible markup by providing them with browser functions that allow them to actually benefit and test their accessibility features.
Jon
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>Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 11:06:01 -0500 (EST)
>From: Access Systems < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >
>Subject: Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Extensions to Internet Explorer that support
From: Allison Tynan
Date: Wed, Mar 10 2004 5:38AM
Subject: Field labels
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Hello everyone
Is it possible to attach invisible field labels? Say for example you have
three fields for an address, instead of labelling each field Address 1,
Address 2 etc, is it possible to provide an invisible label for the second
two fields?
Many thanks
Allison Tynan
System Concepts Limited
2 Savoy Court
Strand
London
WC2R 0EZ
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