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From: Jon Gunderson
Date: Jun 21, 2006 8:50PM

Rainer,

1. Titling is part of WCAG 1.0 through the following checkpoints:

Checkpoint 3.5 Use header elements to convey document
structure and use them according to specification. [Priority 2]

Checkpoint 13.4 Use navigation mechanisms in a consistent
manner. [Priority 2]

In WCAG 2.0 working draft there is even more on titling:

Success Criteria 2.4.3 Web units have titles
Success Criteria 2.4.5 Titles, headings, and labels are
descriptive.

2. One of the main reasons FAE [1] was created to re-emphasize
navigation issues through structural markup. Current
automated tools ignore these issues by assigning them to
manual checks.

FAE is designed for functional accessibility and give
developers clear techniques for implementing section 508 and
WCAG requirments.


Jon

[1] http://fae.cita.uiuc.edu

---- Original message ----
>Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 16:25:17 +0200
>From: "Rainer Wagener" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
>Subject: RE: [WebAIM] Evaluating accessibility level for
managers
>To: "WebAIM Discussion List" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
>
>Hi Jon,
>
>let me first state: I'm not very much in favor of automatic
testing
>tools.
>Especially when a site I'm responsible for does not pass 100% ;-)
>
>I was denied some 16% of having implemented 'Navigation &
>Orientation' correctly.
>Reason: 'all h1 elements should have text content that
matches all or
>part of the corresponding title content'.
>
>I never heard about such a rule. I wonder how it could be derived
>from WCAG.
>
>
>Rainer
>
>--
>
>www.rohschnitt.de
>
>
>
>


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and
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