Straw poll on priorities of HTML techniques

This poll was conducted at the Dublin Face to Face on October 20 and 21, 2004.

Technique Priority votes WCAG priority Contentious Comments / Kill reasons
P1 P2 P3 Optional Kill
1.1: The !doctype statement 10         1    
1.2: The title element 10         1, 3    
1.3: The address element   3   3 4 1 y  
1.4: Glossary   1 3 5   2 y  
2.1: Meta redirect 9 1       1    
2.2: Meta refresh 8 2       1    
2.3: Site map   4 4 1   2    
2.4: Collection information   3 3 4   3 y  
3.1: Section headings 5 3 1     1    
3.2: Header misuse 10         1    
4.1: Identifying the primary language 6 2 2     1    
4.2: Identifying changes in language 6 4       2    
5.1: Emphasis   6 4     1    
5.2: Abbreviations 1 3 4 1   1    
5.3: Acronym 1 2 7     1    
5.4: Blink 8   1 1   2, 3    
5.5: Marquee 8   1 1   2, 3    
5.6: Short Quotations (future)           1    
5.7: Long quotations 7 2 1     1    
5.8: Misuse of blockquote 9 1       3    
5.9: Use of the title attribute   3 3 2 1      
5.10: Supplemental meaning cues   1 2 6 1 2, 2, 3    
5.11: CSS instead of presentational markup 5 5            
5.12: Use non-deprecated presentational markup 3 6     1 1    
5.13: Inline structural elements to identify citations, code fragments, deleted text, etc. 1 5 2 2   1    
5.14: Color 7 3       2    
5.15: Relative size 4 1 3 2        
6.1: Ordered lists   6 3     1    
6.2: Abuse of list markup 10         1    
7.1: The caption element (optional)   2 1 6   1    
7.2: The title attribute on the table element (optional) 4 5     1      
7.3: Summarizing data tables (optional) 4 5   1        
7.4: Terse substitutes for header labels (optional)   3   6 1      
7.5: Identifying groups of rows (optional) 1 3 3 3   1    
7.6: Identifying groups of columns (optional)   3 4 3   1    
7.7: Specifying the set of data cells for which each header cell provides header information 3 5 1     1    
7.8: Associating header cells with data cells 3 5 1     1    
7.9: Categorizing data cells   1 2 7   1    
7.10: Misuse of the pre element 10         3    
7.11: Row and column headings 9         1    
8.1: Layout tables (deprecated) 4 1 2 2 1 1    
8.2: Table structure in layout tables 10         1    
8.3: Summaries of layout tables 7       2      
8.4: Linear reading order of tables 7 3       3    
9.1: Link Text 6     1 3 3    
9.2: Supplement link text with the title attribute   4 5 2   2    
9.3: Text for images used as links 8 1     1 1, 1, 2    
9.4: Image and text links side by side 1 2 4 1 2 1, 1, 2    
9.5: Link groups 1 4 1 4   2    
9.6: tabindex to skip link groups (future)   3 3 4   2    
9.7: Skipping link groups 3 4 2 1   2    
9.8: Hide link groups       7 4 2    
9.9: Link separation 1 2   5 2      
9.10: Keyboard access   2 3 6   1    
9.11: Automatic activation of keyboard shortcuts         9 2    
9.12: Accesskey conflicts         10 1    
9.13: Anchors and targets 6 1   1 1 2    
9.14: Using frame targets (deprecated) 6 2 1 1   2    
9.15: Opening new windows 9 1       1    
9.16: The link element and navigation tools 2 3 4 1   2    
9.17: The link element and alternative documents   1 4 5        
10.1: Short text alternatives for img elements ("alt-text") 10         1, 1    
10.2: Spacer images 11 1            
10.3: Misuse of alternative text 10         1    
10.4: Image titles 7 1   1 3 1, 1    
10.5: Short text alternatives for object elements (future) 7 1   1 3 1, 1    
10.6: Non-explicit text alternatives for object       6 2 1, 1    
10.7: Long descriptions of images 9 1 1     3, 1    
10.8: Long description of objects 6 1 1   3 3, 1    
10.9: D links (deprecated)       4 8 3    
10.10: Describe images without longdesc 5 1 3 1 1 3    
10.11: ASCII art 1 3   7   2    
10.12: Emoticons     1 7 4      
10.13: Text in images   4 2 5   1, 1, 1    
10.14: Background images 6 2 1     3    
11.1: Use client side image map 11 1            
11.2: Text links for server side image maps. 8 2 1   1      
11.3: Redundant text links for client side image maps (deprecated)   3 1 5 2      
11.4: Text alternatives for client-side image maps 12              
12.1: Direct accessibility of programmatic objects 11 1            
12.2: Markup and style sheets rather than images: the example of math                
12.3: Programmatic object fallbacks                
12.4: Alternative content for programmatic objects                
12.5: Text and non-text alternatives for object                
12.6: Alternative content for applet                
12.7: Alt text for applet                
12.8: Alternative content for embed 7   1 1 3      
12.9: Alt text for embed 4 2   2 4      
12.10: Embedding multimedia objects   2 1 5 4      
12.11: Plugin viewers                
13.1: CSS styling 5 3 1 1 1      
13.2: CSS fallback                
14.1: Frame titles 12 1            
14.2: Frame name 4 2 2 3        
14.3: Describing frame relationships (deprecated)     2 5 4      
14.4: Writing for browsers that do not support FRAME 4 2 1 4 1      
14.5: Frame sources 6 1   2 2      
14.6: Descriptive links for inaccessible frame source 4 1     6      
14.7: Alternative content for iframe 7     2 4      
14.8: Longdesc for iframe   1 3 5 3      
15.1: Explicit form labels 7 3     1      
15.2: Implicit labels for form controls (deprecated) 3 3   1 4      
15.3: Label form controls with the title attribute 2 2 1 5 1      
15.4: Label positioning                
15.5: Grouping form controls 1 7 3 1        
15.6: Grouping options of select elements 2 3 3 3        
15.7: Tab order in forms 2 3 1 6        
15.8: Text alternatives for submit buttons 10     2        
15.9: Place-holding characters in empty controls (deprecated) 1     1 9      
15.10: Tabular forms 3 1   3 3      
16.1: Text alternatives for scripts                
16.2: JavaScript URLs                
16.3: Scripted form submission                
16.4: Keyboard shortcuts for directly accessible scripts 2 1 1 6 1      
16.5: Device dependent event handlers 9       2      
16.6: Abstract event handlers 8   1   2      
16.7: Auto submit combo boxes 7 1   2