Changes in WD-WAI-USERAGENT-19980615.html

General changes

Note that in integrating comments, the editors did their best to integrate only those suggestions available on mailing lists and to ensure that new guidelines were introduced as Priority 2 or Priority 3.

• Removed implementation-specific language wherever possible.
• In most places where the user was supposed to be able to "turn off" something, the user can now it "turn on/off".

Specific changes

• 3.3 Definition of terms "current view", current focus, and current user selection
• 3.4 Addition of a section on alternate text and description links
• 3.5 Addition of section on Dependent and Independent User Agents (those that rely on rendering by another UA and those that don't). This distinction is interesting, but not elaborated in this draft of the document. The editors hope to work on this more in the near future.
• 4.1.1. Added hover to list of controlled presentation features.
• 4.2.1 Guideline allowing users to specify where and how alt representations of information are presented (none, one, many simultaneously).
• 4.2.2 Guideline to turn on/off D-links
• 4.3.3 New guideline on rendering image map (AREA element) Alt-text.
• Merged several guidelines when closely related (e.g., Images 4.3, Applets 4.5).
• 4.6.1 New guideline on rendering table summary information
• 4.7.2 Serialized view of page now asks for visual info to be minimized and discrete, but not removed.
• 5.1.4 New guideline to allow turning on/off of page forwarding.
• 5.1.1 and 5.1.2 Distinction between changing the focus in the current view vs. changing focus when switching views. The guideline about restoring the view is moved to 6.3.2 (navigation)
• 5.2.2 New guideline to allow information about how much of document has been viewed.
• 5.3.3 Explicit guidelines about distinguishing visited from unvisited links
• 5.3.4 Guideline about borders around images used in links.
• 6.2 Added strategies for different types of hierarchical navigation: sibling only or parent-child (up-down).
• 6.6 New guideline about table cell navigation.
• 7.1.2 Guideline about providing predefined accessibility profiles.
• 7.3.1 Guideline about on-line documentation. Help tool should also be accessible.
• 8.1 (CSS compatibility). Fixed up language.
• 8.2 (HTML compatibility). Fixed up language.
• 13 Added reference to the SMIL Recommendation