This is a draft document and does not represent consensus of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (WCAG WG) nor the W3C. This document is not final nor complete. This document lists errata that should be considered in a possible revisionof WCAG 1.0 and tracks WCAG WG decisions and discussions of those errata. The WCAG WG is considering publication of a revised version of WCAG 1.0 to make normative changes to the Recommendation as described in Section 7.6 Modifying a W3C Recommendation of the W3C Process document. Please send questions and concerns to the WCAG WG's mailing list: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org.
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Unique id and short name | Description | Type of errata | WCAG WG accepts or rejects this erratum? | Resolution | References |
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1. Update References |
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2. Add References |
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3. Fix PDFs |
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4. Remove links to "other formats" |
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5. Consistency of punctuation in checkpoints and priorities |
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6. Clarify that following the guidelines does not guarantee accessibility |
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7. Clarify how priorities were assigned to each checkpoint. |
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8. Meta data conformance schemes |
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9. Emphasize that order of checkpoints does not effect priority | Daniel Dardieller (18 May 1999) suggested that we explicitly state that the order of the checkpoints does not mean that 1.1 is more important than 14.1. (He also suggests reordering the checkpoints, since people will continue to think that order matters. However, propose that if we address his comment we only focus on the clarification about order and do not attempt to reorder a revised WCAG 1.0, although it is something to consider in WCAG 2.0). | ||||
10. Deprecate Checkpoint 1.5 |
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11. Deprecate Checkpoint 7.4 |
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12. Deprecate Checkpoint 7.5 |
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13. Deprecate Checkpoint 10.1 |
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14. Deprecate Checkpoint 10.2 |
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15. Deprecate Checkpoint 10.3 |
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16. Deprecate Checkpoint 10.4 |
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17. Deprecate Checkpoint 10.5 |
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18. Deprecate Checkpoint 13.6 |
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19. Fix checkpoint 1.3 |
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21. Fix checkpoint 7.1 |
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22. Fix checkpoint 7.2 |
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23. Fix checkpoint 7.3 |
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24. Run .html through tidy to produce xhtml | |||||
25. Fix broken links to external sites | |||||
26. Update Wendy C affiliation | should be changed to: (Trace until 1999, then W3C) | ||||
27. Define "text element" |
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28. Acknowledge that there is a bug for XML in relation to checkpoint 6.1 |
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29. Incorporate erratum #1 - typo in Status section |
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30. Clarification of the rationale for Guideline 1. |
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31. Relative units and sizing of images. |
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32. Text in images - clarification of checkpoint 3.1 |
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Unique id and short name | Description | Type of errata | WCAG WG accepts or rejects this erratum? | Resolution | References |
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T1. Problems with viewing the text in Netscape 4.01 | Unable to recreate this error. Described in email from Jan 2000. @@Look at CSS and HTML for markup error. | ||||
T2. See source code instead of document | Unable to recreate this error. Described in email from Nov 2001. Don't know which browser the person used, other than on a Mac. | ||||
T3.Space in 'alt' attribute problematic w.r.t. HTML 4.01 | Null alt-text has emerged as the favored method (rather than a space in alt-text). Replace mention of "space" in alt-text with "null alt-text." | ||||
T4. Improve in-page navigation | More links from content to the top of the page. As described in email from David Croft May 2001. | ||||
T5. Shorten links that span multiple lines | Long links are difficult to read when text size is increased. As described in email from David Croft May 2001. | ||||
T6. Fix acronym example (HTML-TECHS) | Debate that "WWW" is not an acronym, but an abbreviation. "An acronym can be pronounced, not just spelled, while an abbreviation can only be spelled." As described in email from Christian Hujer October 2001. | ||||
T7. Update HTML examples for XHTML (HTML-TECHS) | Include closing tags such as </tr> and </td> as described in email from Charles McCathieNevile December 2001 (sent to team-only mailing list). | ||||
T8. List examles in order of best to use. | Perhaps add an "index" at the beginning of each section to show which examples should be used in which cases. Also, stress that deprecated examples are to be avoided. | ||||
T9. Fix "Generated Content" section (of CSS-TECHS) |
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T10. Reformat examples - some are too wide. | |||||
T11. Fix example for 11.1 in CSS-TECHS |
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T12. Resources for directly accessible applets (HTML-TECHS) | Refer to Peter Korn's last call comments from March 1999 which refer to section 8.2 Directly accessible applets of HTML-TECHS. | ||||
T13. Fix HTTP status code (HTML-TECHS) |
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T14. Replace /span with /dd in example in section 13 |
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T15. Fix broken link to PDF |
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Ian sent a list of possible errata to the WAI domain (team-only link). Not all of these seem relevant anymore. A few examples:
$Date: 2004/01/14 22:33:29 $ Wendy Chisholm
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