Changes between 31 March and 11 June User Agent Guidelines Revisions

Guidelines changes

Reference documents:

• 31 March 1999 User Agent Accessibility Guidelines
• 11 June 1999 User Agent Accessibility Guidelines

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

• As per the resolution of the 19 May UAGL teleconference, the guidelines are integer numbered.
• The guidelines have been reorganized according to Ian's 31 May proposal.

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

• 4.4.x: 4.x

• 5.1.x: 5.x

• 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.