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This page is for maintaining a record of changes between each revision of the User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0, produced by the User Agent Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (UAWG). If you find the list is incomplete or inaccurate please send email to the Working Group at w3c-wai-ua@w3.org.

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Version REC-UAAG10-20021217 and NOTE-UAAG10-TECHS-20021217

This is a W3C Recommendation.

This version includes some editorial clarifications from the Proposed Recommendation.

Version PR-UAAG10-20021016 and WD-UAAG10-TECHS-20021016

This is a Proposed Recommendation.

General

Checkpoints

Conformance

Version WD-UAAG10-20021003 and WD-UAAG10-TECHS-20021003

This draft incorporates fourth last call reviews. It does not differ substantially from the last call draft. Minor editorial fixes are not listed here.

Introduction

Guidelines

Checkpoints

Techniques

Version WD-UAAG10-20020821 and WD-UAAG10-TECHS-20020821

This is the fourth last call draft of UAAG 1.0 (and accompanying Techniques document).

Version WD-UAAG10-20020809

This draft includes a modified checkpoint 6.4, per a resolution of the 8 August 2002 UAWG teleconference. This document is essentially the document that will go to last call.

Versions WD-UAAG10-20020807 and WD-UAAG10-TECHS-20020807

General

This draft of UAAG 1.0 primarily revises the sections on conformance and the introduction. This draft of Techniques for UAAG 1.0 is based on a review by Eric Hansen.

Introduction

Checkpoints

Conformance

Glossary

References

Techniques

Too many edits to note here.

Versions WD-UAAG10-20020728 and WD-UAAG10-TECHS-20020728

General

This version incorporates UAWG resolutions and editorial comments suggested for the 8 July draft. This is expected to be the final UAWG draft before returning to last call in August 2002. However, there are still some questions about whether checkpoint 6.4 needs to be made more specific.

This draft incorporates comments from Harvey Bingham and a substantial review by Eric Hansen. There are too many editorial changes to list separately.

Introduction

Guidelines

Checkpoints

I revisited all the checkpoints to ensure that were content is intended, the word appears in the checkpoint provision.

Some checkpoints are now identified as being mutually exclusive of others (and not "special cases"). For instance, checkpoint 1.2 may be excluded from a conformance profile, but 1.1 may not, so 1.1 must state that 1.2 is mutually exclusive.

Relationships among provisions that cross-reference one another are clearer (e.g., 9.7 extends functionalities required by 9.3).

Conformance

Major overhaul based on suggestion from Eric Hansen to define "conformance profiles". This version should be much easier to understand. It's also been pruned (some information moved to other parts of the document).

Glossary

References

Techniques

Versions WD-UAAG10-20020708 and WD-UAAG10-TECHS-20020708

General

This version is the result of nearly ten months of Candidate Recommendation experience. It includes a number of important changes that are the result of user agent evaluations performed with developers of a variety of products. Important changes are noted as such; there were a number of editorial changes made as a result of removing and clarifying checkpoints.

Introduction

Guidelines

Checkpoints

Checkpoint numbers are the ones in this draft unless noted otherwise. See also detailed list of changes.

Checkpoints or portions of checkpoints from CR-UAAG10-20010912 that were deleted:

Conformance

Glossary

References

Checklists

Techniques

Note: Some techniques also indicated above, where moved from a checkpoint as the result of deleting the checkpoint.

Versions CR-UAAG10-20010912 and WD-UAAG10-TECHS-20010912

This is a Candidate Recommendation. Changes from the previous version are:

Versions WD-UAAG10-20010831 and WD-UAAG10-TECHS-20010831

General

Checkpoints

References

Versions WD-UAAG10-20010731 and WD-UAAG10-TECHS-20010731

General

Checkpoints

Conformance

Techniques

Versions WD-UAAG10-20010714 and WD-UAAG10-TECHS-20010714

General

Introduction

Guidelines

Checkpoints

Conformance

Glossary

Techniques

Versions WD-UAAG10-20010622 and WD-UAAG10-TECHS-20010622

General

Checkpoints

References

Techniques

Versions WD-UAAG10-20010604 and WD-UAAG10-TECHS-20010604

Introduction

Guidelines

Checkpoints

Conformance

Glossary

References

Techniques

Versions WD-UAAG10-20010525 and WD-UAAG10-TECHS-20010525

General

Introduction

Guidelines

Checkpoints

Conformance

Glossary

References

Techniques

Versions WD-UAAG10-20010411 and WD-UAAG10-TECHS-20010411

This draft of the documents is a first experiment in breaking them into smaller pieces by default. There is still a single HTML version available for each document, available along with the other available formats.

Versions WD-UAAG10-20010409 and WD-UAAG10-TECHS-20000409

Versions WD-UAAG10-20010404 and WD-UAAG10-TECHS-20000404

General

There were only very minor changes to the Guidelines. This was mostly an effort to clean up the Techniques Document.

Techniques

Versions WD-UAAG10-20010331 and WD-UAAG10-TECHS-20000331

General

Guidelines

Checkpoints

Conformance

Glossary

References

Techniques

Versions WD-UAAG10-20010323 and WD-UAAG10-TECHS-20000323

General

Guidelines

Checkpoints

Conformance

Important changes based on proposal from Ian adopted at 22 March teleconference.

Glossary

Versions WD-UAAG10-20010319 and WD-UAAG10-TECHS-20000319

General

Abstract

Introduction

Guidelines

General edits, notably to prose of G1, G3, G5, G9.

Checkpoints

Conformance

Glossary

References

Techniques

Versions WD-UAAG10-20010309 and WD-UAAG10-TECHS-20000309

General

Introduction

Guidelines

Checkpoints

Conformance

Glossary

References

Techniques

Versions WD-UAAG10-20010224 and WD-UAAG10-TECHS-20000224

General

Guidelines

Checkpoints

Conformance

Based on proposal from Ian, added text to clarify that checkpoint groupings are not normative. This pertains to issue 435.

Glossary

References

Techniques

Versions WD-UAAG10-20010126 and WD-UAAG10-TECHS-20000126

General

Introduction

Checkpoints

Conformance

Glossary

Techniques

Versions WD-UAAG10-20010116 and WD-UAAG10-TECHS-20010116

This version includes:

Versions WD-UAAG10-20010113 and WD-UAAG10-TECHS-20010113

General

Abstract

Introduction

Important editorial changes. Based on issue 356, section 1.2 was split into a number of sections, one of which is "known limitations". The sections are:

Guidelines

Checkpoints

Conformance

Important changes and clarifications here. I have attempted to simplify the conformance model so that by default, you have to do everything, and that to do less than that, you must say how you narrow the scope of conformance in your claim (through three mechanisms).

Glossary

References

Techniques

Versions WD-UAAG10-20001229 and WD-UAAG10-TECHS-20001229

General

Introduction

Guidelines

Checkpoints

Conformance

Many of the changes to the section on conformance were made as part of implementing the resolution to issue 345.

Glossary

References

Techniques

Versions WD-UAAG10-20001023 and WD-UAAG10-TECHS-20001023

General

There are minor editorial changes globally based on review from Ian, Eric, and Judy Brewer.

Abstract

Updated to focus on purpose and scope of document. Scope is expanded on in section 1.2.

Introduction

Guidelines

Checkpoints

Conformance

Glossary

References

Techniques

Versions WD-UAAG10-20000929 and WD-UAAG10-TECHS-20000929

General

Abstract/Introduction

Conformance

Implemented resolutions of 28 September teleconf as follows:

Guidelines

Checkpoints

References

Glossary

Techniques

I did my best to update techniques based on other checkpoint changes. The techniques document should be reviewed soon to ensure compatibility with the changed guidelines.

Versions WD-UAAG10-20000901 and WD-UAAG10-TECHS-20000901

Changes to Guidelines

Changes to Checkpoints

Changes to Glossary

Changes to Conformance

Per the applicability analysis and the resolution of 24 August teleconference:

Changes to References

Editorial changes

Changes to Techniques

Versions WD-UAAG10-20000818 and WD-UAAG10-TECHS-20000818

General changes

Changes to Checkpoints

Changes to Glossary

Changes to Conformance

Important Conformance sections 3.2 and 3.3 have been rewritten in light of the resolution of issue 294 at the 17 August teleconference.

Changes to References

Changes to Techniques

Versions WD-UAAG10-20000728 and WD-UAAG10-TECHS-20000728

General changes

Changes to Guidelines

Changes to Checkpoints

Changes to Glossary

Changes to References

Changes to Techniques

While there were a few changes to the techniques document, they are not really worth documenting.

Versions WD-UAAG10-20000707 and WD-UAAG10-TECHS-20000707

These documents incorporate more resolutions to issues raised during the Proposed Recommendation review and other changes based on Working Group discussion of thoses issues. In particular, this version of the document folds in some results of the minimal requirements discussion. Refer also to Determining Conformance to the UA Guidelines.

General changes

Changes to checkpoints

Changes to glossary

Changes to the Techniques

Versions WD-UAAG10-20000610 and WD-UAAG10-TECHS-20000610

These documents incorporate more resolutions to issues raised during the Proposed Recommendation review and other changes based on Working Group discussion of thoses issues.

Changes to the Guidelines

General

Checkpoints

Also, the following checkpoints were affected by the resolution of the 25 May 2000 teleconference to incorporate the changes proposed by Madeleine Rothberg about configure and control:

Glossary

Changes to the Techniques

Versions WD-UAAG10-20000507 and WD-UAAG10-TECHS-20000507

These documents incorporate resolutions to issues raised during the Proposed Recommendation review and other changes based on Working Group discussion of thoses issues.

Changes to the Guidelines

General

Please note that this draft does not take into account "minimal requirements" discussions (refer to issue 257.

Introduction

Conformance / Applicability

Guidelines

Checkpoints

The checkpoints were moved around for several reasons:

  1. Groupings within Guidelines changed as a result of issue 226 and issue 270.
  2. Some priorities were changed and thus checkpoints were reordered
  3. Some checkpoints were moved because they made sense in other Guidelines.

As a result, the numbers below indicate the numbers in the document as of this version (which may be different from the numbers indicated in the recorded issues).

Changes to individual checkpoints:

Glossary

A number of changes were made to the glossary:

References

Changes to the Techniques

Editorial

Techniques

Versions PR-UAAG10-20000310 and WD-UAAG10-TECHS-20000310

This version of the Guidelines is a Proposed Recommendation.

Changes to the Guidelines

Versions CR-UAAG10-20000308 and WD-UAAG10-TECHS-20000308

Changes to the Guidelines

This is a revision of the Candidate Recommendation for Working Group review.

Conformance

Checkpoints

References

Glossary

Editorial

Changes to the Techniques

This is a major revision of the Techniques document, with too many changes to document easily. The text should be less redundant, less verbose, easier to read, and more complete. Some stuff:

Versions CR-UAAG10-20000126 and WD-UAAG10-TECHS-20000126

Changes to the Guidelines

Changes to the Techniques

Summary of changes between WAI-USERAGENT-19991105 and CR-UAAG10-20000121

This section summarizes the major changes to the guidelines between the last call draft and the first Candidate Rec draft.

Total checkpoints in last call: 87

Total checkpoints in CR draft : 80

Deleted checkpoints

Added checkpoints

Modified checkpoints

Checkpoint priority changes

Checkpoint clarifications

The following checkpoints were clarified, modified due to merging, or otherwise improved. If the checkpoint number changed, the new one is in parentheses: 1.1, 1.5, 2.2 (now 2.5), 2.4 (now 2.2), 2.7 (now 2.3), 3.9 (now P2), 4.1 (order switched with 4.2), 4.7 (includes more multimedia types, now 4.5), 4.10 (now 4.6), 4.13 (includes more multimedia types, now 4.6) 4.17 (now 4.12), 4.18 (now 4.16), 5.3 (now 5.2), 5.4 (now 5.3), 10.3 (now 10.4), 10.6 (now 10.7).

Editorial changes to checkpoints

The following checkpoints had editorial changes made to them. If the checkpoint number changed, the new one is in parentheses: 1.4, 2.1, 2.5 (now 2.6), 2.8 (now 2.4), 2.9 (now 2.7), 3.4, 4.9, 4.12 (now 4.7), 5.5 (now 5.4), 5.6 (now 5.1), 5.7 (now 5.5), 5.5 (now 5.4), 7.6 (now 7.5), 8.3 (now 8.6), 10.4, 10.7 (now 10.8), 11.4

Other changes to the guidelines not related to the checkpoints

These changes were made as part of a general effort to clarify the guidelines:

Minority opinions

Versions CR-UAAG10-20000121 and WD-UAAG10-TECHS-20000121

Changes to Guidelines

Changes to Techniques

Versions WD-UAAG-20000115 and WD-UAAG-TECHS-20000115

Changes to Guidelines

General changes

Conformance

Introduction changes

Last three paragraphs of principles of accessible design (1.2) subsection on user interface edited to talk about installation and consistency. Also about support for deprecated features.

Checkpoint changes

Changes to Glossary

Changes to Techniques

Versions WD-WAI-USERAGENT-19991220 and WD-WAI-USERAGENT-TECHS-19991220

Changes to Guidelines

Changes to Techniques

Versions WD-WAI-USERAGENT-19991206 and WD-WAI-USERAGENT-TECHS-19991206

Changes to Guidelines

A number of editorial changes were made based on Eric Hansen comments. Changes include:

Changes to Techniques

Version WD-WAI-USERAGENT-TECHS-19991121

Lots of additional techniques based on WG comments during last call.

Versions WD-WAI-USERAGENT-19991105 and WD-WAI-USERAGENT-TECHS-19991105

Changes to Guidelines

Changes to Techniques

Added more techniques based on comments from Jon Gunderson, Al Gilman, Marja Koivunen (direct mapping), and others.

Versions WD-WAI-USERAGENT-19991029 and WD-WAI-USERAGENT-TECHS-19991029

Changes to Guidelines

Changes to Techniques

Major restructuring

Version WAI-USERAGENT-19991022

This is a Working Group draft. There was no Techniques document published on this date.

General changes

Changes to Conformance

Changes to Guideline 1

Changes to Guideline 2

Changes to Guideline 3

Changes to Guideline 4

Changes to Guideline 5

Changes to Guideline 6

Changes to Guideline 7

Changes to Guideline 8

Changes to Guideline 9

Changes to Guideline 10

Changes to Guideline 12

Appendix on Dependent UA requirements.

Changes to the Glossary

Changes to the References

Versions WAI-USERAGENT-19991005 and WAI-USERAGENT-TECHS-19991005

These are Working Group drafts.

Changes to the Guidelines

Changes to the Techniques

Versions WAI-USERAGENT-19991004 and WAI-USERAGENT-TECHS-19991004

These are Working Group drafts.

Changes to the Guidelines

General

Abstract

Introduction

Conformance

Guideline 1

Guideline 2

Guideline 3

Guideline 4

Guideline 5

Guideline 8

Guideline 9

Guideline 10

Glossary

References

Changes to the Techniques

Versions WAI-USERAGENT-19990827 and WAI-USERAGENT-TECHS-19990827

These are Working Group drafts.

Changes to the Guidelines

General

Except where indicated, guideline and checkpoint numbers refer to those of the current draft.

Introduction

Guideline 1

Guideline 3 (formerly 7)

Guideline 4 (formerly 5)

Guideline 5 (formerly 6)

Guideline 6 (formerly 12)

Guideline 7 (formerly 11)

Guideline 8

Guideline 9

Guideline 10

Guideline 12 (formerly 3)

Glossary

Changes to the Techniques

Versions WAI-USERAGENT-19990811 and WAI-USERAGENT-TECHS-19990811

These are public drafts. There are no changes in content from the 16 July drafts. This draft was put on the W3C Technical Reports Page after Interest Group Review on 29 July.

Versions WAI-USERAGENT-19990809 and WAI-USERAGENT-TECHS-19990809

Guidelines

General

Conformance

Checkpoints

Guidelines

Glossary

Techniques

Versions WAI-USERAGENT-19990716 and WAI-USERAGENT-TECHS-19990716

Guidelines

Techniques

Versions WAI-USERAGENT-19990709 and WAI-USERAGENT-TECHS-19990709

The list of changes for the 9 July 1999 guidelines is available on the Web.

The list of changes for the 9 July 1999 techniques is available on the Web.

Versions WAI-USERAGENT-19990611 and WAI-USERAGENT-TECHS-19990611

The list of changes for the 11 June 1999 guidelines is available on the Web.

The list of changes for the 11 June 1999 techniques is available on the Web.

Version WAI-USERAGENT-19990331

Public version

The only changes from the previous version (WD-WAI-USERAGENT-19990309) were related to the document's style sheets and headers (to conform to W3C TR page styles).

Version WD-WAI-USERAGENT-19990309

The list of changes for the 9 March 1999 version is available on the Web.

Version WD-WAI-USERAGENT-19990210

The list of changes for the 10 Feb 1999 version is available on the Web.

Version WD-WAI-USERAGENT-19981019

It is difficult to summarize the changes in this draft of the guidelines since there have been many. I recommend that people review the entire guidelines document to verify whether changes they requested were made. If not, please inform the editors.

Aside from general editing, some of the main changes include:

Version WD-WAI-USERAGENT-19980814

Version WD-WAI-USERAGENT-0713

Version WD-WAI-UA-BROWSER-19980603

Changed Priorities for some of the items in the following sections from Priority 1 to Priority 2

D-LINK

HTML 4.0

Version WD-WAI-UA-BROWSER-19980602

Abstract

1.0 Ratings and Classifications

2.0 General principles of accessible design

2.3 Selection, Focus, and Events

3.1 Control over Browser Defaults and Author Styles

3.2 Alternative Representations of Images

3.3 Alternative Representations for Video, Movies, and Animations

3.5 Alternative Views of Document

4.1 Maintenance of Document View and Focus

5.2 Hierarchical Navigation

5.3 Direct Navigation

Appendix-C

Version WD-WAI-UA-BROWSER-19980521