WAI technical activities

Protocols and Formats, Evaluation and Repair

Overview

• Protocols and Formats:
  • Current themes
  • Current specifications
• Evaluation and Repair
• Questions.

Protocols and Formats

• Review of W3C work in progress
• Similar to I18N
• Resource for other WAI groups

Some current topics

• Events
• Schemas and Semantics
• Animation
• XHTML, Xlink
• SVG
• DOM, SMIL

Events

• A new set of user events (onMouseover, onKeypress, etc)
• Device independent:
  • Some people cannot use a mouse
  • Some devices have few keys
  • I18N concern on keys
• Many groups:
  • DOM
  • XHTML
  • SVG
  • SMIL

Schemas and Semantics

• Metadata for alternatives
  • video
  • images
  • audio
  • text - ruby
• Understanding XML elements
• XML language guidelines
• Metadata for understanding multimedia

Animation

• Declarative instead of functional
• Conveying changes in different media
• Control of timing
  • turning it off
  • slowing it down

XHTML

• img, object, applet?
• Tables
• Forms, Xforms
• accesskey, tabindex
• Implementation of new features

Xlink

• Behaviour
• Role

SVG

• Self-describing graphics
• XML structure
• Multiple presentation
  • graphics
  • text
  • audio
  • tactile
• Re-useable libraries
• Metadata for diagrams
• Draft SVG Note

DOM, SMIL

DOM

• Events model: Describing events??
• Abstract events
• Access to the User Interface

SMIL

• Audio descriptions
• Events
• Access to alternatives

Evaluation and Repair

• Evaluation tools - demonstrating RDF
• Check and repair for Authoring Tools
  • A-prompt
  • tablin
  • Evaluation and Repair Techniques

Questions and discussion

W3C presentations archived online at http://www.w3.org/Talks