- From: Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2017 20:16:23 +0100
- To: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
On 20/04/2017 16:50, Andrew Kirkpatrick wrote: > >> On 20/04/2017 16:34, White, Jason J wrote: >>> [Jason] Possibly also Open Document Format (ODF) or Office Open XML >>> (OOXML), both endorsed by ISO. >> >> Are those really Web Content formats? (I'd even question the inclusion >> of PDF in WCAG 2.0, in this respect) > > According to the WCAG 2.0 definition, yes they can be. Assuming you mean https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/#technologydef which says, to paraphrase, "anything rendered, played, executed by user agents" and then https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/#useragentdef is defined as, to paraphrase, "anything that retrieves and presents web content". isn't that a completely tautological set of definitions? Doesn't this mean that anything (other than native executables) is effectively "Web Content" if it's loaded by a program, and that the program then is a "User Agent" since it loaded it? So would a Word/Excel/PowerPoint document be "Web Content"? Would a 3DS file be Web Content because it's loaded into 3D Studio Max, and therefore 3D Studio Max is a User Agent? Or am I missing something? P -- Patrick H. Lauke www.splintered.co.uk | https://github.com/patrickhlauke http://flickr.com/photos/redux/ | http://redux.deviantart.com twitter: @patrick_h_lauke | skype: patrick_h_lauke
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