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From: Gunderson, Jon R
Date: May 17, 2011 8:33AM

The rules are design oriented ruled developed in collaboration with web developers, people with disabilities and web accessibility experts defining and refining the rules to meet the accessible design challenges of rweb developers.

http://collaborate.athenpro.org/group/web/

The group is open for anyone to participate who is interested in best practices for web accessibility.

The major difference with these rules and other checkers is that the rules are design oriented, rather than repair oriented techniques promoted in WCAG techniques document.

Design rules are welcomed by many developer and easy for web developers to implement when designing new resources.

They are needed to codify the presence of navigation bars in web pages.

http://html.cita.illinois.edu/nav/menu/

It is an important design feature that WCAG seems to ignore, but real web designers spend a lot of time on.

Headings are very important and most web accessibility evaluation tools provide very little information to developers on how to include headers.

H1 for titling
http://html.cita.illinois.edu/nav/title/

use of sub headings
http://html.cita.illinois.edu/nav/heading/

HTML5 and ARIA provide new and better ways to mark up navigation bars (nav element and role='navigation') and these will be integrated into future versions of FAE.

ARIA
http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/roles#landmark_roles

HTML5
http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/sections.html#the-nav-element


Jon