History of Changes to CSS Techniques for WCAG 2.0 Working Drafts

19 November 2004 version

• Modified techniques
  • Specifying colors by keyword or hex value
  • Absolute positioning based on structural markup - screen shots and descriptions added.
  • Where possible, mapped techniques to success criteria and guidelines.
• Added techniques
  • Creating Invisible labels for form elements
  • Creating stylized text with CSS rather than using raster images
• Closed issues
  • Issue 725
  • Issue 734
  • Issue 736
  • Issue 1022
  • Issue 1202
  • Issue 298

30 July 2004 version

16 July 2001 version

There was not a previous version of this document. However, this document is based on the CSS Techniques for WCAG 1.0 Note, last published 6 November 2000. Therefore, this entry in the change log reflects changes between the 6 November 2000 Note CSS Techniques for WCAG 1.0 and the 16 July 2001 Working Draft CSS TEchniques for WCAG 2.0.

• Changes in organization
  • Broke into 7 sections, grouping the CSS concepts in the 2nd section. Previously, these were higher-level section.
  • The concepts with in the CSS Concepts section were reordered in increasing level of difficulty.
• Two new sections:
  • Assessing accessibility of CSS with HTML
  • Assessing accessibility of CSS with XML
• The titles of several sections have changed.
• New content was added, primarily to the following sections:
  • Why CSS? Added lots of info about user and author benefits to using CSS. Particularly about the differences between CSS for XML vs HTML.
  • Units of measure. Found great info from Charles Munat.
  • The two new sections on assessment.

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$Date: 2004/11/18 23:27:13 $ Wendy Chisholm