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Implementation Review of Opera Browser 6.0

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Evaluation Information

Subject: Opera Browser 6.0

Operating System: Windows

Formats: HTML 4.01, CSS1 and CSS2

Date: 14 February 2002

Guidelines: User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 ( W3C Candidate Recommendation, 12 September 2001 )

Reviewer

Name: Jonny Axelsson and Ian Jacobs

Affliation: Opera and W3C

Phone:

E-mail: jax@opera.no

Evaluation Summary

Complete Implementation

Total checkpoints: 41

• 1.1 Full keyboard access. (Priority 1)
• 1.3 Provide text messages. (Priority 1)
• 2.2 Provide text view. (Priority 1)
• 3.2 Toggle audio, video, animated images. (Priority 1)
• 3.3 Toggle animated/blinking text. (Priority 1)
• 3.4 Toggle scripts. (Priority 1)
• 3.5 Toggle content refresh. (Priority 1)
• 4.1 Configure text size. (Priority 1)
• 4.2 Configure font family. (Priority 1)
• 4.3 Configure text colors. (Priority 1)
• 4.17 Choose style sheets. (Priority 1)
• 7.1 Focus and selection conventions. (Priority 1)
• 7.2 Respect input configuration conventions. (Priority 1)
• 9.1 Provide content focus. (Priority 1)
• 9.2 Provide user interface focus. (Priority 1)
• 9.3 Move content focus. (Priority 1)
• 9.4 Restore history. (Priority 1)
• 10.2 Highlight selection and content focus. (Priority 1)
• 10.3 Distinct default highlight styles. (Priority 1)
• 10.7 Highlight current viewport. (Priority 1)
• 11.1 Current user bindings. (Priority 1)
• 12.3 Document default bindings. (Priority 1)
• 2.7 Repair missing content. (Priority 2)
• 5.1 No automatic content focus change. (Priority 2)
• 5.2 Keep viewport on top. (Priority 2)
• 5.3 Manual viewport open only. (Priority 2)
• 5.4 Selection and focus in viewport. (Priority 2)
• 7.3 Operating environment conventions. (Priority 2)
• 7.4 Input configuration indications. (Priority 2)
• 9.5 No events on focus change. (Priority 2)
• 9.7 Move content focus optimally. (Priority 2)
• 9.8 Text search. (Priority 2)
• 9.9 Structured navigation. (Priority 2)
• 10.4 Highlight special elements. (Priority 2)
• 11.4 Single key access. (Priority 2)
• 11.5 Default binding requirements. (Priority 2)
• 11.6 User profiles. (Priority 2)
• 12.4 Document changes. (Priority 2)
• 10.6 Provide link information. (Priority 3)
• 10.8 Indicate rendering progress. (Priority 3)
• 11.7 Configure tool bars. (Priority 3)

Very Good Implementation

Total checkpoints: 4

• 2.1 Render content according to specification. (Priority 1)
• 2.3 Render conditional content. (Priority 1)
• 8.1 Implement accessibility features. (Priority 1)
• 12.1 Accessible documentation. (Priority 1)

Good Implementation

Total checkpoints: 5

• 3.1 Toggle background images. (Priority 1)
• 12.2 Document accessibility features. (Priority 1)
• 12.5 Dedicated section on accessibility. (Priority 2)
• 2.8 No repair text. (Priority 3)
• 2.9 Render conditional content automatically. (Priority 3)

Poor Implementation

Total checkpoints: 2

• 5.5 Confirm form submission. (Priority 2)
• 10.5 Outline view. (Priority 2)

Not Implementation

Total checkpoints: 16

• 1.2 Activate event handlers. (Priority 1)
• 4.4 Slow multimedia. (Priority 1)
• 6.1 DOM read access. (Priority 1)
• 6.2 DOM write access. (Priority 1)
• 6.3 Programmatic access to non-HTML/XML content. (Priority 1)
• 10.1 Table orientation. (Priority 1)
• 3.6 Toggle redirects. (Priority 2)
• 3.7 Toggle images. (Priority 2)
• 5.6 Confirm fee links. (Priority 2)
• 9.6 Show event handlers. (Priority 2)
• 11.2 Current author bindings. (Priority 2)
• 11.3 Override bindings. (Priority 2)
• 2.10 Toggle placeholders. (Priority 3)
• 2.11 Alert unsupported language. (Priority 3)
• 5.7 Manual viewport close only. (Priority 3)
• 9.10 Configure important elements. (Priority 3)

Not Applicable

Total checkpoints: 15

• 2.4 Allow time-independent interaction. (Priority 1)
• 2.5 Make captions, transcripts available. (Priority 1)
• 2.6 Respect synchronization cues. (Priority 1)
• 4.5 Start, stop, pause, advance, reverse multimedia. (Priority 1)
• 4.6 Position captions. (Priority 1)
• 4.9 Global volume control. (Priority 1)
• 4.10 Independent volume control. (Priority 1)
• 4.12 Configure synthesized speech rate. (Priority 1)
• 4.13 Configure synthesized speech volume. (Priority 1)
• 4.14 Configure synthesized speech characteristics. (Priority 1)
• 4.7 Slow other multimedia. (Priority 2)
• 4.8 Control other multimedia. (Priority 2)
• 4.11 Control other volume. (Priority 2)
• 4.15 Specific synthesized speech characteristics. (Priority 2)
• 4.16 Configure synthesized speech features. (Priority 2)

Not Rated

Total checkpoints: 7

• 6.4 Programmatic operation. (Priority 1)
• 6.5 Programmatic alert of changes. (Priority 1)
• 6.6 Conventional keyboard APIs. (Priority 1)
• 6.7 API character encodings. (Priority 1)
• 6.8 DOM CSS access. (Priority 2)
• 6.9 Timely access. (Priority 2)
• 8.2 Conform to specifications. (Priority 2)

Checkpoint Details

1.1 Full keyboard access. (P1)

Rating: C

Comments

• There is report a bug for one function that is not available through the keyboard that will be fixed

1.2 Activate event handlers. (P1)

Rating: NI

No Comments

1.3 Provide text messages. (P1)

Rating: C

No Comments

2.1 Render content according to specification. (P1)

Rating: VG

Comments

• Complete implementation of CSS1
• Very good implementation of HTML 4.01
• Fair implementation of CSS2

2.2 Provide text view. (P1)

Rating: C

No Comments

2.3 Render conditional content. (P1)

Rating: VG

Comments

• ALT for IMG: Yes
• TITLE for IMG element: ??
• LONGDESC for IMG element: No
• content of OBJECT element: Yes
• ALT for AREA element: Yes
• ALT for INPUT element: Yes
• ACRONYM element: In status line
• ABBR element: In status line
• SUMMARY for TABLE: No
• TITLE for FRAME: ??
• LONGDESC for FRAME: No
• NOFRAME for FRAME: Yes
• NOSCRIPT for SCRIPT:

2.4 Allow time-independent interaction. (P1)

Rating: NA

Comments

2.5 Make captions, transcripts available. (P1)

Rating: NA

Comments

2.6 Respect synchronization cues. (P1)

Rating: NA

Comments

2.7 Repair missing content. (P2)

Rating: C

Comments

• Indicates the element type IMAGE for IMG
• Can use IMG:BEFORE and IMG:AFTER (bug right now)

2.8 No repair text. (P3)

Rating: G

No Comments

2.9 Render conditional content automatically. (P3)

Rating: G

Comments

• Somethings possible with CSS

2.10 Toggle placeholders. (P3)

Rating: NI

No Comments

2.11 Alert unsupported language. (P3)

Rating: NI

No Comments

3.1 Toggle background images. (P1)

Rating: G

Comments

• Can use CSS

3.2 Toggle audio, video, animated images. (P1)

Rating: C

Comments

• Enable/disable embedded video option
• Enable/disable embedded audio option

3.3 Toggle animated/blinking text. (P1)

Rating: C

Comments

• Only supports CSS blinking, so through style sheets

3.4 Toggle scripts. (P1)

Rating: C

Comments

• Enable/disable javvascript execution
• Enable/disable java applet execution

3.5 Toggle content refresh. (P1)

Rating: C

Comments

• Allows user to override author settings on refresh

3.6 Toggle redirects. (P2)

Rating: NI

Comments

3.7 Toggle images. (P2)

Rating: NI

No Comments

4.1 Configure text size. (P1)

Rating: C

Comments

• Can resize both text and images

4.2 Configure font family. (P1)

Rating: C

Comments

• Can configure default style sheet or through user style sheets

4.3 Configure text colors. (P1)

Rating: C

Comments

• Can configure default style sheet of through user style sheets

4.4 Slow multimedia. (P1)

Rating: NI

Comments

• Only animation format supported is animated GIFs

4.5 Start, stop, pause, advance, reverse multimedia. (P1)

Rating: NA

No Comments

4.6 Position captions. (P1)

Rating: NA

No Comments

4.7 Slow other multimedia. (P2)

Rating: NA

No Comments

4.8 Control other multimedia. (P2)

Rating: NA

No Comments

4.9 Global volume control. (P1)

Rating: NA

No Comments

4.10 Independent volume control. (P1)

Rating: NA

No Comments

4.11 Control other volume. (P2)

Rating: NA

No Comments

4.12 Configure synthesized speech rate. (P1)

Rating: NA

No Comments

4.13 Configure synthesized speech volume. (P1)

Rating: NA

No Comments

4.14 Configure synthesized speech characteristics. (P1)

Rating: NA

No Comments

4.15 Specific synthesized speech characteristics. (P2)

Rating: NA

No Comments

4.16 Configure synthesized speech features. (P2)

Rating: NA

No Comments

4.17 Choose style sheets. (P1)

Rating: C

Comments

• Support both user and author style sheet, one step toggle between user and author styling modes

5.1 No automatic content focus change. (P2)

Rating: C

No Comments

5.2 Keep viewport on top. (P2)

Rating: C

No Comments

5.3 Manual viewport open only. (P2)

Rating: C

No Comments

5.4 Selection and focus in viewport. (P2)

Rating: C

No Comments

5.5 Confirm form submission. (P2)

Rating: P

No Comments

5.6 Confirm fee links. (P2)

Rating: NI

No Comments

5.7 Manual viewport close only. (P3)

Rating: NI

No Comments

6.1 DOM read access. (P1)

Rating: NI

No Comments

6.2 DOM write access. (P1)

Rating: NI

No Comments

6.3 Programmatic access to non-HTML/XML content. (P1)

Rating: NI

No Comments

6.4 Programmatic operation. (P1)

Rating: NR

No Comments

6.5 Programmatic alert of changes. (P1)

Rating: NR

No Comments

6.6 Conventional keyboard APIs. (P1)

Rating: NR

No Comments

6.7 API character encodings. (P1)

Rating: NR

No Comments

6.8 DOM CSS access. (P2)

Rating: NR

No Comments

6.9 Timely access. (P2)

Rating: NR

No Comments

7.1 Focus and selection conventions. (P1)

Rating: C

Comments

• Allows for the styling of link focus

7.2 Respect input configuration conventions. (P1)

Rating: C

No Comments

7.3 Operating environment conventions. (P2)

Rating: C

No Comments

7.4 Input configuration indications. (P2)

Rating: C

No Comments

8.1 Implement accessibility features. (P1)

Rating: VG

Comments

• See 2.3 for more info
• Does not implement outline feature of CSS

8.2 Conform to specifications. (P2)

Rating: NR

Comments

9.1 Provide content focus. (P1)

Rating: C

No Comments

9.2 Provide user interface focus. (P1)

Rating: C

No Comments

9.3 Move content focus. (P1)

Rating: C

No Comments

9.4 Restore history. (P1)

Rating: C

No Comments

9.5 No events on focus change. (P2)

Rating: C

No Comments

9.6 Show event handlers. (P2)

Rating: NI

No Comments

9.7 Move content focus optimally. (P2)

Rating: C

Comments

• Navigation of headers
• Provides a list of links
• Navigation of just form controls
• Navigation of element
• Navigation of just links

9.8 Text search. (P2)

Rating: C

Comments

9.9 Structured navigation. (P2)

Rating: C

Comments

• Navigation to Headers: yes
• Navigation to or skip MAP elements: No
• Navigation to List elements (OL, UL, DL): Yes
• Navigation to Links: Yes
• Navigation to Form controls: Yes
• Navigation to block level elements: Yes
• Navigation to in-line level elements: Yes
• Navigation to embedded applications or controls: Yes

9.10 Configure important elements. (P3)

Rating: NI

No Comments

10.1 Table orientation. (P1)

Rating: NI

No Comments

10.2 Highlight selection and content focus. (P1)

Rating: C

No Comments

10.3 Distinct default highlight styles. (P1)

Rating: C

No Comments

10.4 Highlight special elements. (P2)

Rating: C

No Comments

10.5 Outline view. (P2)

Rating: P

Comments

• Could use user CSS

10.6 Provide link information. (P3)

Rating: C

Comments

• Visited and unvisited styling

10.7 Highlight current viewport. (P1)

Rating: C

No Comments

10.8 Indicate rendering progress. (P3)

Rating: C

No Comments

11.1 Current user bindings. (P1)

Rating: C

No Comments

11.2 Current author bindings. (P2)

Rating: NI

No Comments

11.3 Override bindings. (P2)

Rating: NI

Comments

11.4 Single key access. (P2)

Rating: C

No Comments

11.5 Default binding requirements. (P2)

Rating: C

No Comments

11.6 User profiles. (P2)

Rating: C

No Comments

11.7 Configure tool bars. (P3)

Rating: C

Comments

• Need to edit opera.ini file

12.1 Accessible documentation. (P1)

Rating: VG

Comments

• Maybe C, but not verified

12.2 Document accessibility features. (P1)

Rating: G

No Comments

12.3 Document default bindings. (P1)

Rating: C

Comments

• Keyboard section on help menu

12.4 Document changes. (P2)

Rating: C

No Comments

12.5 Dedicated section on accessibility. (P2)

Rating: G

No Comments

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