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Implementation Review of Internet Explorer 6.0
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Subject: Internet Explorer 6.0
Operating System: Windows 9x/Me/2000/XP
Formats: HTML 4.01, CSS1, CSS2 and SMIL 2.0
Date: 27 March 2002
Guidelines: User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 ( W3C Candidate Recommendation, 12 September 2001 )
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Reviewer
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Name: Jon Gunderon and Tim Lacy
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Affliation: UIUC and Microsoft
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Phone: (217) 244-5870
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E-mail: jongund@uiuc.edu
Complete Implementation
Total checkpoints: 41
Very Good Implementation
Total checkpoints: 6
Good Implementation
Total checkpoints: 6
Poor Implementation
Total checkpoints: 7
Not Implementation
Total checkpoints: 20
Not Applicable
Total checkpoints: 6
Not Rated
Total checkpoints: 4
Rating: VG
Comments
- Use can select subsets of content in a web document using just the keyboard (can select all of the content using the keyboard)
- Cannot access TITLE attribute (tooltip feature) information using the keyboard
Rating: NI
No Comments
Rating: C
Comments
- Configuration option to select text for user interface controls and messages
Rating: C
Comments
- Renders HTML, CSS, a number of graphic image formats and some audio formats. Does not contradict current specifications for HTML and CSS rendering.
- Potential conflict with ACCESSKEY in HTML 4.01, the specification says "For example, when a user activates a link defined by the A element, the user agent generally follows the link.". It is not clear if this is informative or normative. IE just gives focus, does not activate the link.
Rating: C
Comments
- Source view is available from the view menu
Rating: G
Comments
- ALT for IMG: yes, alt text rendered in place of the images when images turned off
- TITLE for IMG element: as tooltip
- LONGDESC for IMG element: not supported
- content of OBJECT element: does not support OBJECT for rendering images
- ALT for AREA element: no, alt text is only viewable as a tooltip, as long at there is not TITLE attribute content
- ALT for INPUT element: yes, alt text rendered in place of the images when images turned off
- ACRONYM element: as tooltip that flashes, some weird behavior
- TITLE for MAP: as a tooltip
- ABBR element: not implemented
- SUMMARY for TABLE: not implemented
- TITLE for FRAME: not implemented
- LONGDESC for FRAME: not implemented
- NOFRAME for FRAME: not implemented
- NOSCRIPT for SCRIPT: not implemented
- TITLE for MAP: as a tooltip
Rating: NI
Comments
- No way to control an HTML+TIME (SMIL 2.0) presentation
Rating: NR
Comments
- Supports the Windows OS caption options ("Show sounds")
Rating: C
Comments
- I didn't test this completely, but it seems to work for the demos we have done
Rating: P
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- If ALT is missing for an image the TITLE attribute will be used, if both are missing no repair content is generated
- No other missing conditional content elements generate repair text
Rating: P
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- When ALT="" for an image it will still render an image icon
Rating: G
Comments
- ALT text for images, when images are turned off
- TITLE attribute for many elements as a tooltip
- Does not support access to many other types of conditional content, see checkpoint 2.3
Rating: NI
No Comments
Rating: NI
No Comments
Rating: C
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- Turning off images, also turns off background images
Rating: C
Comments
- Audo, video and animations can be turned off
Rating: C
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- Blinking can be turned off
Rating: G
Comments
- Users can disable scripts through security settings
- Does not provide a means to alert users to the presence of a script
Rating: NI
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- The user cannot override automatic refreshing of a web document
- There is not alert for the presence of refresh
Rating: NI
Comments
- The user cannot override automatic redirection of a web document
Rating: C
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- Images can be configured not to be rendered
Rating: C
Comments
- Five levels of user choice through the view menu options. If an author has specified any fixed font sizes in the document, the user must configure the browser to ignore author font sizes in the accessibility control panel
- Greater control through the use of user style sheet
- Not as easy as Opera or Netscape
Rating: C
Comments
- Through options dialog box options or user style sheet
Rating: C
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- Through options dialog box options or user style sheet
Rating: NI
Comments
- No control over HTML+Time presentations
Rating: NI
Comments
- No control over HTML+Time presentations
Rating: NR
Comments
- Not sure if IE supports the rendering of captions natively
Rating: NI
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- Cannot control animation rate of animated images
Rating: NI
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- Cannot control the playing of background sounds
Rating: C
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- Use of the windows operating system volume controls
Rating: NR
Comments
- Not sure how much control over elements in a HTML+Time presentation
Rating: NA
No Comments
Rating: NA
No Comments
Rating: NA
No Comments
Rating: NA
No Comments
Rating: NA
No Comments
Rating: NA
No Comments
Rating: C
Comments
- Allows the user to specify one user style sheet at a time
Rating: NI
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- User cannot control automatic focus changes to new windows when they are opened
Rating: NI
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- Use cannot control what view port remains on top when new windows are opened.
Rating: NI
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- User is not prompted to open a new viewport
Rating: C
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- When focus and/or selection changes they are in the viewport
Rating: P
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- Provides configuration for promting of form submission only under the condition that the connection is not secure
Rating: NI
No Comments
Rating: NI
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- The user does not have any control over a script that destroys a window
Rating: C
Comments
- Claims conformace to DOM level 1
- Uses COM technologies to export the DOM
- The DOM contains HTML errors of the author
- DOM provides access to XML content
Rating: C
Comments
- User can read and write information to all user interface controls
Rating: C
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- Access to directories through active accessibility
- Access to text through active accessibility
- Access to error text through active accessibility
Rating: C
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- Uses Active Accessibility to provide program access to controls
Rating: C
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- Uses Active Accessibility to generate change events to assistive technology
- Can use DOM mutation events to determine changes in a document
- Not sure if DOM multation events are generated
Rating: C
Comments
- Uses standard keyboard API, works with a number of assistive technologies and built-in accessibility features of Windows OS
Rating: C
Comments
Rating: VG
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- Provides access to styling information of elements
Rating: C
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- Can include inprocess communication modes
Rating: C
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- Uses standard focus and highlighting mechanisms
Rating: C
No Comments
Rating: C
Comments
- Uses OS settings for initial font and color information in user interface and some content renderings
Rating: C
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- Using underlined characters in menus to indicate shortcut keys in menus
- Uses OS conventions for cut, copy and paste
- Uses standard menu bars, toolbars and dialog box conventions
Rating: NR
Comments
- HTML: TH element (TABLE), yes
- HTML: CAPTION element (TABLE), yes
- HTML: THEAD element (TABLE), yes available through the DOM
- HTML: TBODY element (TABLE), yes available through the DOM
- HTML: TFOOT element (TABLE), yes available through the DOM
- HTML: COLGROUP element (TABLE), yes available through the DOM
- HTML: COL element (TABLE), yes available through the DOM
- HTML: SCOPE attribute (TABLE), yes available through the DOM
- HTML: HEADERS attribute (TABLE), yes available through the DOM
- HTML: AXIS attribute (TABLE), yes available through the DOM
- HTML: TABINDEX attribute, yes
- HTML: ACCESSKEY attribute, yes
- CSS: TEXT-INDENT, yes
- CSS: TEXT-ALIGN, yes
- CSS: WORD-SPACING, yes
- CSS: LETTER-SPACING, yes
- CSS: FONT-STRETCH, no
- CSS: MARGIN, yes
- CSS: FLOAT and CLEAR, yes
- CSS: POSITION, yes
- CSS: !IMPORTANT, NR
- CSS: SYSTEM FONTS, NR
- CSS: SYSTEM COLORS, NR
- CSS: list types, yes
- CSS: OUTLINE, no
- CSS: :before, :after, no
- CSS: :hover, yes
- CSS: :visited, :unvisited, yes
Rating: VG
Comments
- HTML 4.01: VG
- CSS1: VG
- CSS2: G
- DOM 1.0: C
- SMIL 2.0: G, difference in implementation, not sure how much of the specification is imaplemented
Rating: C
No Comments
Rating: C
No Comments
Rating: C
Comments
- Provides sequential access to links and input form controls
- Cannot navigate to non-links and non-input form controls with event handlers
Rating: C
Comments
- Restores focus and view position as previous windows are navigated with the back command
Rating: P
Comments
- User cannot turnoff only the activation of input events
- Can turn off scripting, but then no event processing is available
Rating: P
Comments
- Only through a source view
Rating: VG
Comments
- Provides sequential access to links and input form controls
- Cannot navigate to non-links and non-input form controls with event handlers
- Same features as for 9.3
Rating: C
Comments
- Provides forward and reverse text search capability from the element with the current focus/selection, with and without case sensitivity
Rating: P
Comments
- Navigation to Headers: no
- Navigation to or skip MAP elements: no
- Navigatoin to List elements (OL, UL, DL): no
- Navigation to Links: yes
- Navigation to Form controls: yes
- Navigation to block level elements: no
- Navigation to in-line level elements: no
- Navigation to embedded applications or controls: yes, if they have TABINDEX defined as an attribute
Rating: NI
No Comments
Rating: G
Comments
- Renders TH and THEAD table headers according to specification for a graphical rendering. Headers cells are bolded.
- No information about scope or headers attributes through the user interface (i.e could be a tooltip like function)
Rating: C
Comments
- Provides a focus outline box
- Highlights follow graphical rendering convenions for windows
Rating: C
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- Are distinct for people with normal vision
Rating: C
Comments
- Use system colors by default
- Underlines links by default
- Can user CSS for user styling of elements
Rating: P
Comments
- Can use a user style sheet to implement an outline
- Controls to change style sheets are awkward
Rating: VG
Comments
- Only uses color to indicate whether a link has been visted by default
- CSS can style visited and unvisited links
Rating: G
Comments
- Uses title bar color and focus indicator to indicate with view port has focus
- Viewport with focus also has menu hot keys highlighted when the ALT key is pressed
Rating: C
Comments
- Provides a text message in the status bar of progress in loading a resource
Rating: C
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- Extensive keyboard shortcut information
Rating: NI
No Comments
Rating: NI
No Comments
Rating: NI
No Comments
Rating: VG
Comments
- Move focus to next enabled element: yes
- Move focus to previous enabled element: yes
- Activate focused link: yes
- Search for text: yes
- Search again for same text: yes
- Increase size of rendered text: yes
- Decrease size of rendered text: yes
- Increase global volume: yes
- Decrease global volume: yes
- Stop, pause, resume, fast advance, and fast reverse selected audio and animations (including video and animated images): NO
- Next history state (forward): yes
- Previous history state (back): yes
- Enter URI for new resource: yes
- Add to favorites (i.e., bookmarked resources): yes
- View favorites: yes
- Stop loading resource: yes
- Reload resource: yes
- Refresh rendering: yes
- Forward one viewport: yes
- Back one viewport: yes
- Next line: yes
- Previous line: yes
Rating: G
Comments
- Can use style sheets for some configuration information
- In network environments, setting can be saved as part of user network profiles
Rating: C
Comments
- Can turn on and off entire tool bars
- Can customize the number, position and size of the buttons on the toolbar
Rating: C
Comments
- Uses HTML for documentation
Rating: C
Comments
- Provides multiple topics in a keyword search on either accessibility or disability
Rating: C
Comments
- Provides extensive information on default keyboard bindings
Rating: NI
Comments
- Could not find information on changes in documentation
Rating: C
No Comments
Jon Gunderson (Jon Gunderson)
Ian Jacobs (ij@w3.org)
Last revised: $Date: 2004/03/09 18:53:40 $
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