Accessibility Minutes 2013 09 16
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Present
- Jon Gunderson (University of Illinois)
- Mark Novak (Paciello Group)
- Mike Scott (Illinois Dept. of Human Services)
- Nicholas Hoyt (University of Illinois) - scribe
- Rich Schwerdtfeger (IBM)
Minutes
Rule Scopes
JG: Would like to add website scope.
JG: Previously we have had rules with page and element scope.
JG: www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/#consistent-behavior-consistent-locations
JG: We now have three types of rules relative to scope that we've identified:
- element-level rules e.g. image, widget, form control
- page-level rules e.g. heading structure, presence of main landmark
- new: website-level rules, based on WCAG 2.4.5, 3.2.3 and 3.2.4, rules about a set of web pages
NH: Distinguishing between element- and page-level rules helps with visualizations.
JG: At the conceptual level, we think it will help developers to have website-level rules
MS: How have we categorized rules according to these three types?
JG: Am going through all of our current rules to determine whether correct scope is defined.
Rule Results for Different Types of Rules
From Agenda:
- Coding to standards or coding conflicts (fail/manual checks, no passes)
- No title element
- Both aria-required and required on element
- Empty label element
- Accessibility requirements (pass/fail/manual check)
- At least one main
- Image has alt attribute
- No label on form control
- Helps reduce passing counts and accessibility scoring inflation
JG: Coding to Standards
JG: You don't get a pass result for these types of rules, but you get a failure if you don't comply.
JG: This allows only the accessibility requirements rules contribute to pass percentage.
New rules for Navigation category
- WCAG 2.4.5: More than one way: site map, inter page navigational links, website search feature
- WCAG 3.2.3 :Consistent Navigation (same relative order)
- WCAG 3.2.4: Consistent identification (same names)
JG: Navigation Rule 1
JG: At least two of the following features must be used to find content in a website
- website search feature
- list of links for navigation between pages
- breadcrumbs or sand trail
- dedicated page that serves as site map
- home page includes a list of links to all other pages in the website
JG: These are the five ways to comply with 2.4.5.
JG: The next two rules are for 3.2.3: Consistent Navigation (same relative order)
JG: Navigation Rule 2
JG: Consistent ordering of main, navigation, search, banner and contentinfo landmarks on each page of a website
JG: Navigation Rule 3:
JG: Consistent ordering of h1 and h2 elements that mark major sections on each page of a website (also for 3.2.3)
RS: Don't we need to go beyond the h2 level?
JG: h1 and h2 are the only heading elements for which we have rules that specifically address indicating main sections of pages.
RS: Could have additional regions on page.
JG: Developers could see this as a template rule: go through all of my templates to look at consistency.
JG: The "manual checking techniques" that we provide could discuss templates.
JG: WCAG How to Meet: labels for form controls, headings, landmarks, alt text on images
JG: These would be manual check rules.
JG: Do not have rules yet for 3.2.4
Miscellaneous
JG: Have updated link hrefs on downloads page for OAA Evaluation Library.