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From: gez
Date: Aug 29, 2003 9:13AM

Hi Terrence,

Thanks for your feedback. I've got a small test suite I use at the moment.
It's small in that it really just concentrates on link and image
combinations, but contains quite a few files. I'll think about putting it
together with some other tests, and making it available online.

Thank you for the information on opening the longdesc URI in pwWebSpeak. I
tried it, and it works a treat.

Best regards.

Gez


----- Original Message -----
From: "Terence de Giere" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
To: < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 3:34 PM
Subject: RE: Assistive Device Behaviour Chart


> Gez --
>
> This is something I always wanted to do but never had the time, or
> perhaps, the inclination.
>
> I would suggest a systematic approach by creating small web pages that
> initially only deal with one HTML element at a time (for the block
> elements - inline element need to be inside some other element). For
> example, the IMG element. Make a page that has the IMG element with an
> image with alternate text, without alternative text, with null alternate
> text, and blank space alternate text. Make a second set of these with
> the same parameters and add the title attribute. Copy everything again
> and add the longdesc attribute with a real image description file
> linked. Copy these to make another set but break the SRC to the image so
> it cannot load - sometimes mistakes are made on sites, and the link to
> the image is wrong, or an image may not sometimes load for other reasons
> such as heavy traffic. This way one can find out how each technology
> responds to the presence or lack of information. This can also apply to
> low vision and normal user for an image. If the image does not show,
> what do they see?
>
> Over time you could build a full catalog of HTML elements pages that
> would allow others to test a particular technology's response to that
> particular structure in a web page. This can be important for usability,
> because accessibility guidelines do not always work. An example of this
> is the title attribute for FRAMES. It is not supported by all
> technology. But sometimes the name attribute is, and creating a human
> readable understandable name attribute (without spaces!) will help a
> number of users determine what the FRAME content is.
>
> The web page http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/index/elements.html gives a
> summary of all the elements in HTML 4.01 and is the basis for the the
> XHTML element names as well. This could get quite complicated in all the
> permutations, so I would think carefully about what would be most
> important to present.
>
> By the way in pwWebSpeak, in the last version released, ALT + i takes
> you to the longdesc description file, and ALT + b takes you back to the
> original page.
>
> Terence de Giere
> <EMAIL REMOVED>
>
>
>
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