Changes between 31 March and 11 June
User Agent Guidelines Revisions
Guidelines changes
Reference documents:
General
This draft aligns in in structure with the
Web
Content Accessibility Guidelines Recommendation.
- Some subgrouping information (based on
Jon's proposal) has been added, but should
be revisted based on the changes between the previous
draft and this one.
1 Introduction
Aligned with intro of the Web Content
Accessibility Guidelines Recommendation.
Braille added to list of assistive technologies.
1.1 Principles of Accessible Design
The introduction has been rewritten based on
Ian's 31 May proposal and the WG's approval of it at the 2
June 1999 teleconference.
2. How the Guidelines are organized
New section. Taken from the
Web
Content Accessibility Guidelines Recommendation.
3.1 Conformance
Expanded to include three levels of conformance: Level A, Level
Double-A, and Level Triple-A. Other text is taken from the Web Content
Accessibility Guidelines Recommendation.
4. User Agent Accessibility Guidelines
New guidelines
- Configuration
- Documentation
- Orientation
- Navigation
- Notification
- Use W3C Technologies
Deleted guidelines (since subsumed/redistributed)
- Product installation, documentation, and configuration
- Keyboard
- Links
- Forms
- Tables
- Document view
- Document structure
- Document events
- Language accessibility features
Checkpoint changes
New checkpoints
- 1.2 keyboard access
- 1.3 - 1.6 (dev-ind activation, config, install, doc)
- 2.4 config navigation sets
- 3.3, 3.4 keyboard documentation
- 6.1 access to doc content
- 6.2 access to elem content
- 6.4 support changes in natural language
- 7.5 direct access to active elements
- 7.6 search active elements
- 8.2 Make primary lang available.
- 8.10-8.12 link info
- 8.25 frame name info
- 10.1 Support w3c access features
- 10.2 Support w3c technologies
- 11.1 - 11.6 have been updated based
on
Jon's proposal of 15 April.
Individual checkpoint changes
The following are the checkpoint numbers as they
appear in the 11 June draft.
- 4.8: Added note about flickering as per 10 June resolution.
- 6.8 to Pri 1 (synchronization of text descs
- 6.11 to Pri 1 (synchronization of auditory descs)
Checkpoint map
- 4.2.1: 1.1
- NEW: 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6
- 4.2.2: 1.7
- 4.2.3: 1.3
- 4.3.1: 2.1
- 4.3.2: 2.2
- New: 2.3, 2.4
- 4.3.3: deleted
- NEW:6.1, 6.2
- 5.2.1: 6.3
- 5.2.2: 6.5
- 5.2.3: 6.6
- 5.2.4: 6.7 (and following)
- 5.3.1: deleted
- 5.3.2: deleted
- 5.3.3: deleted
- 5.3.4: 7.5
- 5.3.5: 8.15
- 5.3.6: 6.12
- 5.3.7: 6.13
- 5.3.8: deleted (see 7.4)
- 5.3.9: deleted
- 5.4.1: 6.2 (subsumed)
- 5.4.2: 8.21
- 5.4.3: deleted
- 5.4.4: 7.3
- 5.4.5: deleted
- 5.4.6: 8.23
- 5.4.7: 8.20
- 5.4.8: 8.19
- 5.5.1: deleted
- 5.5.2: deleted
- 5.5.3: deleted
- 5.5.4: deleted
- 5.5.5: 8.24
- 5.5.6: deleted
- 5.5.7: 8.13
- 5.5.8: 9.5
- 6.1.1: 8.1
- 6.1.2: 8.2
- 6.1.3: 8.3
- 6.1.4: 8.5
- 6.1.5: 8.6
- 6.1.6: 7.1
- 6.1.7: 7.2
- 6.1.8: 8.4
- 6.1.9: deleted
- 6.1.10: 8.14
- 6.1.11: 9.4, 9.3, 8.18
- 6.2.1: 7.4 and 1.2
- 6.2.2: 8.8
- 6.2.3: 7.8
- 6.2.4: deleted/2.5
- 6.2.5: deleted/2.5
- 6.2.6: 7.7
- 6.3.1: deleted/2.5
- 6.3.2: 9.1
- 6.3.3: 9.2
- 7.1.1: deleted/10.1
- 7.1.2: deleted/10.1
- 7.1.3: deleted/10.1
- 7.2.1: 11.1 and 11.2
- 7.2.2: 11.4
- 7.2.3: 11.1 and 11.2
- 7.2.4: 11.6
Appendix A. Glossary
As per the resolution of the
19 May UAGL teleconference, the glossary is towards the back of the
document. It resembles the WCAG in structure and style.
Ian B. Jacobs
Last modified: Fri Jun 11 18:20:08 EDT 1999