Thread Subject: Re: Thoughts on Current Web Proposal

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From: Debbie Cook
Date: Mon, Mar 26 2007 7:55 AM

Don wrote:
5. I am wondering if we should delete the frames requirement 1194.22(i).
At least for screen readers, definitive frame naming is helpful, but no
longer a major issue in terms of site navigation and comprehension.

DC: Ironic that we've been concerned about accommodating people who are
deaf-blind but would unintentially toss out the much larger population of
people with both vision and learning limitations. No, I wouldn't make more
of this standard than it is, but I most certainly wouldn't drop it. It
definitely provides meaningful orientation until screen readers become smart
enough to stop reading this invisible text altogether. Wish we could
actually prohibit the use of frames, but of course that's way out of bounds.

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