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Implementation Review of Internet Explorer 5.0

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Evaluation Information

Subject: Internet Explorer 5.0

Operating System: Macintosh OS 9.x

Formats: HTML 4.01, CSS1 and CSS2

Date: 25 Feb 2002

Guidelines: User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 ( W3C Candidate Recommendation, 12 September 2001 )

Reviewer
Name: Tantek Celik and Ian Jacobs
Affliation: Microsoft and W3C
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Evaluation Summary

Complete | Very Good | Good | Poor | Not Implemented | Not Applicable | Not Rated

Complete Implementation

Total checkpoints: 25

Very Good Implementation

Total checkpoints: 8

Good Implementation

Total checkpoints: 9

Poor Implementation

Total checkpoints: 16

Not Implementation

Total checkpoints: 14

Not Applicable

Total checkpoints: 17

Not Rated

Total checkpoints: 0


Checkpoint Details

1.1 Full keyboard access. (P1)

Rating: G

Comments


1.2 Activate event handlers. (P1)

Rating: P

No Comments


1.3 Provide text messages. (P1)

Rating: C

No Comments


2.1 Render content according to specification. (P1)

Rating: C

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2.2 Provide text view. (P1)

Rating: C

No Comments


2.3 Render conditional content. (P1)

Rating: G

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2.4 Allow time-independent interaction. (P1)

Rating: NA

No Comments


2.5 Make captions, transcripts available. (P1)

Rating: NA

No Comments


2.6 Respect synchronization cues. (P1)

Rating: NA

No Comments


2.7 Repair missing content. (P2)

Rating: NI

No Comments


2.8 No repair text. (P3)

Rating: P

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2.9 Render conditional content automatically. (P3)

Rating: G

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2.10 Toggle placeholders. (P3)

Rating: N/A, techniques is not used to render conditional content

No Comments


2.11 Alert unsupported language. (P3)

Rating: VG

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3.1 Toggle background images. (P1)

Rating: VG

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3.2 Toggle audio, video, animated images. (P1)

Rating: G

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3.3 Toggle animated/blinking text. (P1)

Rating: G

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3.4 Toggle scripts. (P1)

Rating: C

No Comments


3.5 Toggle content refresh. (P1)

Rating: NI

No Comments


3.6 Toggle redirects. (P2)

Rating: NI

No Comments


3.7 Toggle images. (P2)

Rating: C

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4.1 Configure text size. (P1)

Rating: C

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4.2 Configure font family. (P1)

Rating: C

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4.3 Configure text colors. (P1)

Rating: C

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4.4 Slow multimedia. (P1)

Rating: NA

No Comments


4.5 Start, stop, pause, advance, reverse multimedia. (P1)

Rating: NA

No Comments


4.6 Position captions. (P1)

Rating: NA

No Comments


4.7 Slow other multimedia. (P2)

Rating: NA

No Comments


4.8 Control other multimedia. (P2)

Rating: NA

No Comments


4.9 Global volume control. (P1)

Rating: C

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4.10 Independent volume control. (P1)

Rating: NA

No Comments


4.11 Control other volume. (P2)

Rating: NA

No Comments


4.12 Configure synthesized speech rate. (P1)

Rating: NA

No Comments


4.13 Configure synthesized speech volume. (P1)

Rating: NA

No Comments


4.14 Configure synthesized speech characteristics. (P1)

Rating: NA

No Comments


4.15 Specific synthesized speech characteristics. (P2)

Rating: NA

No Comments


4.16 Configure synthesized speech features. (P2)

Rating: NA

No Comments


4.17 Choose style sheets. (P1)

Rating: C

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5.1 No automatic content focus change. (P2)

Rating: P

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5.2 Keep viewport on top. (P2)

Rating: NI

No Comments


5.3 Manual viewport open only. (P2)

Rating: P

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5.4 Selection and focus in viewport. (P2)

Rating: C

No Comments


5.5 Confirm form submission. (P2)

Rating: P

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5.6 Confirm fee links. (P2)

Rating: NA

No Comments


5.7 Manual viewport close only. (P3)

Rating: P

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6.1 DOM read access. (P1)

Rating: P

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6.2 DOM write access. (P1)

Rating: P

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6.3 Programmatic access to non-HTML/XML content. (P1)

Rating: NA

No Comments


6.4 Programmatic operation. (P1)

Rating: P

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6.5 Programmatic alert of changes. (P1)

Rating: P

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6.6 Conventional keyboard APIs. (P1)

Rating: C

No Comments


6.7 API character encodings. (P1)

Rating: C

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6.8 DOM CSS access. (P2)

Rating: G

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6.9 Timely access. (P2)

Rating: VG

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7.1 Focus and selection conventions. (P1)

Rating: C

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7.2 Respect input configuration conventions. (P1)

Rating: C

No Comments


7.3 Operating environment conventions. (P2)

Rating: P

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7.4 Input configuration indications. (P2)

Rating: C

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8.1 Implement accessibility features. (P1)

Rating: P

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8.2 Conform to specifications. (P2)

Rating: VG

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9.1 Provide content focus. (P1)

Rating: C

No Comments


9.2 Provide user interface focus. (P1)

Rating: C

No Comments


9.3 Move content focus. (P1)

Rating: G

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9.4 Restore history. (P1)

Rating: VG

No Comments


9.5 No events on focus change. (P2)

Rating: P

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9.6 Show event handlers. (P2)

Rating: NI

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9.7 Move content focus optimally. (P2)

Rating: VG

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9.8 Text search. (P2)

Rating: C

No Comments


9.9 Structured navigation. (P2)

Rating: NI

No Comments


9.10 Configure important elements. (P3)

Rating: NI

No Comments


10.1 Table orientation. (P1)

Rating: G

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10.2 Highlight selection and content focus. (P1)

Rating: C

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10.3 Distinct default highlight styles. (P1)

Rating: C

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10.4 Highlight special elements. (P2)

Rating: C

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10.5 Outline view. (P2)

Rating: NI

No Comments


10.6 Provide link information. (P3)

Rating: G

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10.7 Highlight current viewport. (P1)

Rating: P

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10.8 Indicate rendering progress. (P3)

Rating: P

No Comments


11.1 Current user bindings. (P1)

Rating: VG

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11.2 Current author bindings. (P2)

Rating: NI

No Comments


11.3 Override bindings. (P2)

Rating: NI

No Comments


11.4 Single key access. (P2)

Rating: NI

No Comments


11.5 Default binding requirements. (P2)

Rating: C

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11.6 User profiles. (P2)

Rating: C

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11.7 Configure tool bars. (P3)

Rating: C

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12.1 Accessible documentation. (P1)

Rating: NI

No Comments


12.2 Document accessibility features. (P1)

Rating: P

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12.3 Document default bindings. (P1)

Rating: VG

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12.4 Document changes. (P2)

Rating: NI

No Comments


12.5 Dedicated section on accessibility. (P2)

Rating: NI

No Comments


Jon Gunderson (Jon Gunderson)
Ian Jacobs (ij@w3.org)
Last revised: $Date: 2004/03/09 18:53:40 $