Re: [HDP] Response to Review of HTML Design Principles Questionnaire

On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 16:57:30 +0200, Lachlan Hunt  
<lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au> wrote:

> Joshue O Connor claimed:
>> For example accessibility and security are two forces (sic) that could  
>> be at logger heads. In many ways they are opposing principles. How can  
>> we make the web more accessible while still making it more secure? How  
>> can they be reconsiled? Which one will get the bums rush when the chips  
>> are down?
>
> I'm not sure what he's basing that claim on, I can't imagine how any  
> security or privacy issue could affect accessibility.  But, even  
> hypothetically, if it comes down to deciding on a feature that could  
> seriously compromise the security of users for the benefit of  
> accessibility, security wins and accessibility would have to be  
> addressed in another way.  Ideally, however, features would be both  
> secure and accessible and that scenario would never occur.

Visited links come to mind. If AT software is able to read out whether a  
link is visited or not, so can an evil script. It seems somewhat similar  
to the issues with canvas drawWindow, a conflict between wanting to  
extract the information displayed on the screen and preventing a script  
 from getting hold of stuff that's supposed to be private or secret.

-- 
Magnus Kristiansen
"Don't worry; the Universe IS out to get you."