Disposition of comments raised during third last call of UAAG 1.0

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Status of this document

This document indicates the disposition of comments raised during the third last call of UAAG 1.0 (the 9 April 2001 draft). This document has been prepared by the User Agent Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (UAWG) as part of a request to advance to Candidate Recommendation.

Formal responses to reviewers, and acknowledgments

• Reply to AOL, acknowledgement from AOL
• Reply to Mark Novak, acknowledgement from Mark
• Reply to Tantek Celik (Microsoft/Mac IE), acknowledgement from Tantek, later acknowledgement on specific issue.
• Reply to Adobe. Adobe comments have been subsumed by the SVG WG comments.
• Reply to Sun, acknowledgement from Sun
• Reply to HTML WG, acknowledgement from HTML WG
• Reply to Opera, acknowledgement from Opera
• Reply to RealNetworks, acknowledgement from RealNetworks. RealNetworks did not express total agreement, but registered no objections.
• Reply to SVG WG. The Chair of the SVG WG confirmed on behalf of the SVG WG that UAWG should request to advance to CR at the UAWG's 30 August teleconference, despite the fact that a formal acknowledgement had not yet been sent by the SVG WG. A link will be added to the SVG WG acknowledgement when it has been received..

Objections

The following objections have been carried forward to Candidate Recommendation:

1. From Gregory Rosmaita: The priority of checkpoint 12.1 which requires at a Priority 1 level that at least one version of the user agent documentation conforms to at least Level Double-A of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0. Gregory believes the checkpoint should require Triple-A WCAG 1.0 conformance at a P1 level:
2. From IBM: IBM believes that Level Double-A WCAG conformance should not be required if the checkpoint is only P1. One counter-proposal is a relative checkpoint priority (as is found in ATAG 1.0).
3. From Opera: Opera objects to the mandatory DOM core requirement for XML and HTML content. Opera feels that this should be optional for conformance.