UAAG 2.0 Structure "Sandbox"
Under construction...
A. Make the user agent user interface accessible
- A.1 User agents must facilitate access by assistive technologies
- A.2 User agent user interface must be perceivable
- A.3 User agent user interface must be operable
- A.4 User agent user interface must be understandable
B: Enhance access to the Web content
- B.1 Implement specifications that benefit accessibility
- B.2 Allow configuration not to render some content that may reduce accessibility
- e.g. toggling images, animation, code execution, etc.
- B.3 Repair content
- B.4 Provide enhanced views
- e.g. list of links, text views, structual tree views, etc.
Proposal in http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ua/2007AprJun/0030.html
PART A: Make the user agent user interface accessible. [ie. "Chrome"]
- A.1: User agent user interface must be perceivable
- A.2: User agent user interface must be operable
- A.3: User agent user interface must be understandable
- A.4: User agent user interface must be access system friendly
PART B: Enhance the accessibility of rendered content.
- B.1: Perceivability of rendered content must be enhanced
- B.2: Operability of rendered content must be enhanced.
- B.3: Understandability of rendered content must be enhanced.
- B.4: Access system friendliness of rendered content must be enhanced.
UAAG 1.0 Structure
1. Support input and output device-independence
- 1.1 Full keyboard access (P1)
- 1.2 Activate event handlers (P1)
- 1.3 Provide text messages (P1)
2. Ensure user access to all content
- 2.1 Render content according to specification (P1)
- 2.2 Provide text view (P1)
- 2.3 Render conditional content (P1)
- 2.4 Allow time-independent interaction (P1)
- 2.5 Make captions, transcripts, audio descriptions available (P1)
- 2.6 Respect synchronization cues (P1)
- 2.7 Repair missing content (P2)
- 2.8 No repair text (P3)
- 2.9 Render conditional content automatically (P3)
- 2.10 Don't render text in unsupported writing systems (P3)
3. Allow configuration not to render some content that may reduce accessibility
- 3.1 Toggle background images (P1)
- 3.2 Toggle audio, video, animated images (P1)
- 3.3 Toggle animated or blinking text (P1)
- 3.4 Toggle scripts (P1)
- 3.5 Toggle automatic content retrieval (P1)
- 3.6 Toggle images (P2)
4. Ensure user control of rendering
- 4.1 Configure text scale (P1)
- 4.2 Configure font family (P1)
- 4.3 Configure text colors (P1)
- 4.4 Slow multimedia (P1)
- 4.5 Start, stop, pause, and navigate multimedia (P1)
- 4.6 Do not obscure captions (P1)
- 4.7 Global volume control (P1)
- 4.8 Independent volume control (P1)
- 4.9 Configure synthesized speech rate (P1)
- 4.10 Configure synthesized speech volume (P1)
- 4.11 Configure synthesized speech characteristics (P1)
- 4.12 Specific synthesized speech characteristics (P2)
- 4.13 Configure synthesized speech features (P2)
- 4.14 Choose style sheets (P1)
5. Ensure user control of user interface behavior
- 5.1 No automatic content focus change (P2)
- 5.2 Keep viewport on top (P2)
- 5.3 Manual viewport open only (P2)
- 5.4 Selection and focus in viewport (P2)
- 5.5 Confirm form submission (P2)
6. Implement interoperable application programming interfaces
- 6.1 Programmatic access to HTML/XML infoset (P1)
- 6.2 DOM access to HTML/XML content (P1)
- 6.3 Programmatic access to non-HTML/XML content (P1)
- 6.4 Programmatic access to information about rendered content (P1)
- 6.5 Programmatic operation of user agent user interface (P1)
- 6.6 Programmatic notification of changes (P1)
- 6.7 Conventional keyboard APIs (P1)
- 6.8 API character encodings (P1)
- 6.9 DOM access to CSS style sheets (P2)
- 6.10 Timely exchanges through APIs (P2)
7. Observe operating environment conventions
- 7.1 Respect focus and selection conventions (P1)
- 7.2 Respect input configuration conventions (P1)
- 7.3 Respect operating environment conventions (P2)
- 7.4 Provide input configuration indications (P2)
8. Implement specifications that benefit accessibility
- 8.1 Implement accessibility features (P1)
- 8.2 Conform to specifications (P2)
9. Provide navigation mechanisms
- 9.1 Provide content focus (P1)
- 9.2 Provide user interface focus (P1)
- 9.3 Move content focus (P1)
- 9.4 Restore viewport state history (P1)
- 9.5 No events on focus change (P2)
- 9.6 Show event handlers (P2)
- 9.7 Move content focus in reverse (P2)
- 9.8 Provide text search (P2)
- 9.9 Allow structured navigation (P2)
- 9.10 Configure important elements (P3)
10. Orient the user
- 10.1 Associate table cells and headers (P1)
- 10.2 Highlight selection, content focus, enabled elements, visited links (P1)
- 10.3 Single highlight configuration (P2)
- 10.4 Provide outline view (P2)
- 10.5 Provide link information (P3)
- 10.6 Highlight current viewport (P1)
- 10.7 Indicate viewport position (P3)
11. Allow configuration and customization
- 11.1 Current user input configuration (P1)
- 11.2 Current author input configuration (P2)
- 11.3 Allow override of bindings (P2)
- 11.4 Single-key access (P2)
- 11.5 Default input configuration (P2)
- 11.6 User profiles (P2)
- 11.7 Tool bar configuration (P3)
12. Provide accessible user agent documentation and help
- 12.1 Provide accessible documentation (P1)
- 12.2 Provide documentation of accessibility features (P1)
- 12.3 Provide documentation of default bindings (P1)
- 12.4 Provide documentation of changes between versions (P2)
- 12.5 Provide dedicated accessibility section (P2)