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Re: More rationales for GL1 (A.4.1)

From: Jan Richards <jan.richards@utoronto.ca>
Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 15:35:39 -0400
Message-ID: <4285018B.5050802@utoronto.ca>
To: w3c-wai-au@w3.org

Good point. Here is a new proposal. Remember this is rationale text 
(informative rather than normative):

A.4.1 Support interoperability with assistive technologies. [Priority
1].
Rationale: Assistive technologies (e.g. screen readers, screen 
magnifiers, etc.) used by many authors with disabilities rely on 
software applications to provide data and control via prescribed 
communication protocols.


Roberto Scano:
in this point, I suggest to expand something about the correct use of
accessibility API (or define "interoperabile with assistive technology"
as the communication "machine-machine" using OS API)


Proposed:
A.4.1 Support interoperability with assistive technologies. [Priority
1].
Rationale: Authors who use assistive technologies (e.g. screen readers,
etc.) may not be able to use authoring tools that are not sufficiently
interoperable with their assistive technology.

Cheers,
Jan

-- 
Jan Richards, M.Sc.
User Interface Design Specialist
Adaptive Technology Resource Centre (ATRC)
Faculty of Information Studies
University of Toronto

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