Thread Subject: Re: 3 Web Only provisions

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From: Shannon Rapuano
Date: Fri, Aug 24 2007 3:20 PM

I tested screen readers with several documents that included links. Screen
readers could list links in the formats that I tried. I'm sure it may not
work for all formats, but provision 3M for link purpose is supported on
more than the Web.

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Shannon Rapuano, IBM Accessibility Center


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> Gregg,
>
> The "consistent identification" one is an error. It should say simply
that
> "Components which have the same functionality must be identified
> consistently." [1]
>
> As to the other two, we went through every provision discussing whether
it
> applied to Web, Software, and documents in general. In that discussion,
we
> concluded that the other two are really only applicable to Web pages.
>
> Since a document is a single entity, what would repeated blocks mean? I
> suppose if you have a collection of files that go together and have a
table
> of contents at the beginning of each one, being able to skip the TOC
would
> be useful. But in word processing documents, keyboard users do not have
to
> tab through all the links. They can just page down to get past the table
of
> contents.
>
> The purpose of the link purpose provision is to accommodate screen
readers
> that provide a list of links out of context. But our understanding was
that
> they only do that on Web pages. So we concluded that we did not need to
> mandate this requirement for documents in general when it is only an
issue
> on Web pages.
>
> [1]
> http://teitac.org/wiki/
>
Web_and_Software:_Reorganized_Web_and_Software_provisions_2#Consistent_identification

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> Andi
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> "Hoffman, Allen"

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> 08/22/2007 11:11 Re: [teitac-websoftware] 3 Web
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> AM provisions

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> Please respond to

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> I think the idea was to merge web and all other formats into a single set
> of requirements if possible, but we should probably make sure to do a
pass
> through this and if there are items specifically only for content encoded
> and rendered HTML and whatever combination of other encodings we deem
> "web", then they should be noted as such specifically.
>
> Good catch.
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> [mailto: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = ] On Behalf Of Gregg
> Vanderheiden
> Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 12:01 PM
> To: 'TEITAC Web/Software Subcommittee'
> Subject: [teitac-websoftware] 3 Web Only provisions
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> If I am reading the wording of the current draft properly, there are
only
> 3 provisions that apply only to Web.
>
> They are
> 3-H (Consistent Identification),
> 3-L (repeated blocks) and
> 3-M (link purpose)
> Others are to documents in general.
>
> Should these be for Web Pages Only? Or electronic documents as well.
>
> Suggest – that they be expanded to electronic documents as well.
(though
> they might be documents with hyperlink capability or some such – though
> that can be self regulating since if there are no links there is no ).
>
> Thoughts?
>
>
> Gregg
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