Re: Two variants for the redefinition of "accessibility services of software"

Great.  I've updated Variant #3a in preparation for Mike's survey.

Any additional tinkering, let's deal with it through survey comments.


Peter

On 6/5/2013 3:32 PM, Mary Jo Mueller wrote:
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> I think we've reached a quorum.  Woo hoo!  Time to survey.
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> Best regards,
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> Inactive hide details for Gregg Vanderheiden ---06/05/2013 05:10:11 
> PM---That's great Peter, that covers all my issues, yourGregg 
> Vanderheiden ---06/05/2013 05:10:11 PM---That's great Peter,   that 
> covers all my issues,  yours , and Mikes too (I think)
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> From: Gregg Vanderheiden <gv@trace.wisc.edu>
> To: Peter Korn <peter.korn@oracle.com>,
> Cc: Michael Pluke <Mike.Pluke@castle-consult.com>, 
> "public-wcag2ict-tf@w3.org" <public-wcag2ict-tf@w3.org>
> Date: 06/05/2013 05:10 PM
> Subject: Re: Two variants for the redefinition of "accessibility 
> services  of software"
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> That's great Peter,
>
> that covers all my issues,  yours , and Mikes too (I think)
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>         *- services provided by an operating system, user agent, or
>         other platform software that ENABLE non-Web documents or
>         software to expose information about the user interface and
>         events to assistive technologies.* 
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>
> Nice wordsmithing.
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> (and thanks MJ for the inspiration leading to this)
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> /Gregg/
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> On Jun 5, 2013, at 5:57 PM, Peter Korn <_peter.korn@oracle.com_ 
> <mailto:peter.korn@oracle.com>> wrote:
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>     Gregg,
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>     Rather than getting into minutia, let me just jump to Mary Jo's
>     proposal:
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>     <snip>
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>         So I think we should go with Mary Jo's version.
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>
>         *MARY JO WROTE*
>             *- services provided by an operating system, user agent,
>             or other platform software  that can be used by non-web
>             documents or software to expose information about the user
>             interface and events to assistive technologies.* 
>
>         (if you don't like USED maybe use    "relied upon" 
>     I think we can go with a variant of this.  To wit:
>         *- services provided by an operating system, user agent, or
>         other platform software that ENABLE non-Web documents or
>         software to expose information about the user interface and
>         events to assistive technologies.* 
>     The software may or may not actively use these accessibility
>     services.  To be an accessibility service, it has to enable
>     something to happen.  And "exposing information" isn't as active -
>     it is something one could reasonably say is being done by markup
>     (e.g. "ALT=..." is exposing information, and the underlying
>     accessibility service is utilizing that exposed information).
>
>
>     Just as I wouldn't quibble with high school physics teaching
>     Newtonian physics and omitting relativity, I don't see any reason
>     to quibble with accessibility services "enabling non-Web
>     documents" to this audience.
>
>
>     Peter
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