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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 )
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Reviewer
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Name: Tantek Celik and Ian Jacobs
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Affliation: Microsoft and W3C
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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
Rating: G
Comments
- Inherit limiations in the Macintosh OS for full keyboard support
Rating: P
No Comments
Rating: C
No Comments
Rating: C
Comments
- Complete for the following specifications HTML 4.01, CSS1 and PNG)
Rating: C
No Comments
Rating: G
Comments
- ALT for IMG: yes, ALT text is rendered in the place of the image when images turned off
- TITLE for IMG element: Tooltip (mouse hover over image)
- LONGDESC for IMG element: No
- Content of OBJECT element: Yes, Render content when applets turned off.
- ALT attribute of OBJECT: No
- TITLE for MAP element: ??
- ALT for AREA element: ??
- ALT for INPUT element: No
- ACRONYM element: ??
- ABBR element: ??
- SUMMARY for TABLE: ??
- TITLE for FRAME: No
- LONGDESC for FRAME: No
- NOFRAME for FRAME: Yes
- NOSCRIPT for SCRIPT: Yes
- TITLE for any element: ??
Rating: NA
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Rating: NA
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Rating: NA
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Rating: NI
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Rating: P
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- Generate no repair text: Yes
- Allow config to generate repair: No.
Rating: G
Comments
- Most of 2.3 is done automatically
Rating: N/A, techniques is not used to render conditional content
No Comments
Rating: VG
Comments
- Use CSS to make LANG attribute rendered in context of the element
Rating: VG
Comments
- When images turned off, HTML background images not rendered,
but CSS 'background-image' is.
- {background-image: none ! important} will turn off all bg images
Rating: G
Comments
- Audio: C (even though not claiming conformance for sound)
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Video: G (by turning off plug-ins, not claiming conformance for video)
Rating: G
Comments
- Blinking: C
- Animated: P
- No preference to make MARQUEE text static, but can display:none
- Might be able to allow stop MARQUEE on per page basis (but
no config).
Rating: C
No Comments
Rating: NI
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Rating: NI
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Rating: C
Comments
- Exposed through UI
- Can do IMG { display: none} (same for OBJECT but INPUT
since no attribute selection in IE Mac 5.0. Also, don't
want to hide image, should render alt.
Rating: C
Comments
- We support text zoom.
- We support the std OE utility
Rating: C
Comments
- More granularity than required by UAAG 1.0.
- We support the std OE utility
Rating: C
Comments
- Yes in Web Content menu
- We support the std OE picker
Rating: NA
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Rating: NA
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Rating: NA
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Rating: NA
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Rating: NA
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Rating: C
Comments
Rating: NA
No Comments
Rating: NA
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Rating: NA
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Rating: NA
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Rating: NA
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Rating: NA
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Rating: NA
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Rating: C
Comments
- NI in vanilla browser, but included through the "ChooseStyleSheet" Favelet
http://favelets.com/
- You can choose from several user style sheets
(not just one default location)
- (Turn of "Show style sheets")
Rating: P
Comments
- Javascript off will prevent window.open, and focus follows
window.open
Rating: NI
No Comments
Rating: P
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- Javascript off will prevent window.open
Rating: C
No Comments
Rating: P
Comments
Rating: NA
No Comments
Rating: P
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- Javascript off will prevent window.close
Rating: P
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- Implement 80% of DOM 1 core; Mapping to DOM 2 core unknown.
Rating: P
Comments
Rating: NA
No Comments
Rating: P
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- P: Some possible through AppleScript
3.
- VG: AppleScript is publicly documented in AppleScript Dictionary
(available from script editor)
Rating: P
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- C: for content focus.
- NI: for UI focus
- C: For content mutation events - InnerHTML/OuterHTML;
publicly document on MSDN; API is the IE DHTML.
- NI: for UI state changes
Rating: C
No Comments
Rating: C
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- UTF-8 and UTF-16 supported (but DOM implementation
not complete).
Rating: G
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- We implement the pieces people need to use": access
to styles, properties, and values.
Rating: VG
Comments
- OS is not multiprocess. OS Network support often
hangs for long periods of time due to TCP/IP
timeout protocols.
Rating: C
Comments
- We do more than sys conventions. We implement CSS
access to focus.
Rating: C
No Comments
Rating: P
Comments
- Operating environment conventions.
http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/mac/HIGuidelines/HIGuidelines-30.html
- And universal access:
http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/mac/HIGuidelines/HIGuidelines-40.html#MARKER-9-55
Rating: C
Comments
- CMD-keys are in menu items
- Keyboard bindings are documented in help
Rating: P
Comments
- HTML4: P
- CSS1: G
- CSS2: P
- PNG: NR
Rating: VG
Comments
- HTML4: VG
doesn't implement TABINDEX, LONGDESC and other accessibility features
- CSS1: C
- PNG: C
Rating: C
No Comments
Rating: C
No Comments
Rating: G
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- VG: Can't get to event handler elements.
But does allow tabbing to links, form controls, tabindex
2. NI
3. C
Rating: VG
No Comments
Rating: P
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- Can be done by turning off javascript support.
But: Not documented, toggle not keyboard accessible.
Rating: NI
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Rating: VG
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- Allows backwards navigation. Does not allow
navigation to elements with event handlers.
Rating: C
No Comments
Rating: NI
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Rating: NI
No Comments
Rating: G
Comments
- - Rendered according to HTML 4 table model.v
- CAPTION element rendered
- Summary attribute not rendered
- abbr not rendered
- THEAD and TFOOT can't be fixed with 'position: fixed' in CSS
Rating: C
Comments
- Default UA focus has focus ring.
- Done at OS level
4.
- User style sheets.
For text selection no good way to do this for selection.
Rating: C
Comments
- follows OS defaults
- Content focus: C
- (uses outline)
Enabled elements: C
- Hyperlinks are underlined: C
- Buttons have a border: C
- Text fields have bevelled border: C
- Select popups, lists have borders: C
- Recently visited links: C (inherits from OS settings).
- Fee links: N/A
Rating: C
Comments
- Can be done through style sheets.
- TC notes that authors typically suppress blue border
around an image.
Rating: NI
No Comments
Rating: G
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- Content: C
- Title: C, when hover
- Internal: NI
- Recent: C
- Fee: NA
- Meta (Type/size/lang): NI
Rating: P
Comments
- C: Use standard OS convention of frontmost window
- NI: Don't show which frame of frameset has focus.
Rating: P
No Comments
Rating: VG
Comments
- We list keyboard shortcuts in user menus. Most keyboard
shortcuts are indicated in menus.
- Documented as well in help page. There are a few shortcuts
that are not listed there.
- We don't allow user override of default bindings.
Rating: NI
No Comments
Rating: NI
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Rating: NI
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Rating: C
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- C: move focus: next/previous links, form controls
[tab/shift-tab]
- C: activate: Enter/return
- C: search: Cmd-F
C: search again: Cmd-G
- C: text size changes: Cmd-[+|-] (zoom)
- N/A: Volume
- N/A: Audio and animations
- C: next history/Cmd-rightbracket, Cmd-leftbracket
- C: enter URI: Cmd-l
- C: add to favs: Cmd-d
- C: view favs: Cmd-2 or Cmd-j (depending on versoin)
- C: stop loading: Cmd-.
- C: Reload: Cmd-r or F5
- NA: On Mac, use the windowshade button (hide/show). This
is available at OS but not implemented by Mac IE.
- C: F/R one viewport: PageUp/Down
- C: Next/Previous line: arrows
Rating: C
Comments
- One user profile supported
Rating: C
Comments
- Done through drag and drop GUI.
Rating: NI
No Comments
Rating: P
Comments
- Help system documents some things (e.g., user style sheets,
keyboard bindings)
Rating: VG
Comments
- Per evaluation of 11.1, most bindings documented.
Rating: NI
No Comments
Rating: NI
No Comments
Jon Gunderson (Jon Gunderson)
Ian Jacobs (ij@w3.org)
Last revised: $Date: 2004/03/09 18:53:40 $
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