Thread Subject: Re: WCAG 1.3.3 language addition - my actionitemfrom a few weeks ago

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From: Hoffman, Allen
Date: Thu, Aug 09 2007 7:00 AM

I wonder if the old 1194.22(a) addresses this sufficiently?
All the items described must have alternate text assigned to them, and
if the shape, size, etc are important they should be in the
descriptions.




Allen Hoffman -- = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = ; v: 202-447-0303

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Guarino Reid
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 4:24 PM
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Subject: Re: [teitac-websoftware] WCAG 1.3.3 language addition - my
actionitemfrom a few weeks ago

WCAG means "rely on". Color, shape, or position can be helpful
descriptions in instructions, as long as they are not the only means of
identification.

Loretta

On 8/8/07, Peter Korn < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
> Hi Sailesh,
>
> The first sentence comes directly from WCAG 2.0, and so our friends
> from WAI are perhaps in the best position to answer this.
>
> Personally, I think we should strongly discourage folks from needing
> to use this provision. The cases in which instructions (or worse, the

> content itself) needs to rely on shape, size, location, orientation,
> etc. should be *vanishingly* small.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Peter Korn
> Accessibility Architect,
> Sun Microsystems, Inc.
>
> >> "Instructions provided for understanding and operating content do
> >> not rely on shape, size, visual location, or orientation of
components.
> >> Additional information for use by assistive technologies - such as
> >> alternate text to describe necessary visual cues for understanding
> >> and operating the content, or programmatic encoding of
> >> relationships between objects that is necessary for understanding
> >> and operating the content, is sufficient."
> >>
> > Comments:
> > Does this mean : Instructions themselves do not rely on shape,
> > location, etc. of components Or, does it mean:
> > The insttructions do not reference the shape, location, etc. of
components?
> >
> > Sailesh Panchang
> > Senior Accessibility Engineer
> > Deque Systems Inc. (www.deque.com)
> > 11130 Sunrise Valley Drive, Suite #140, Reston VA 20191
> > Phone: 703-225-0380 (ext 105)
> > E-mail: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED =
> >
> >

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