Re: A few thoughts on using dynamic web pages to improve accessibility

Hi, Charles

I probably should have been clearer about dynamic web pages.  What I
meant by the term was web pages which are generated dynamically.
I'll be more careful about that distinction in the future.

Scott

PS  I agree with many of your comments.


> Scott,
> 
> I agree absolutely that it is possible in principle to have accesible dynamic
> pages. It is possible to do some things in practice, too. Currently there
> area numbe of problems to be solved:
> 
> 1. The HTML 4.0 event model assumes a mouse and keyboard interface, which is
> a long way from optimal. Work on fixing that is currently taking place, most
> particularly in the DOM but also in other groups.
> 
> 2. User Agents need to be able to cope with dynaimc content. Some do, some
> don't. One of the problems is letting the user know that there has been a
> change, while making sure taht they don't have to stop and listen to the page
> again every two seconds.
> 
> 3. We need to do some work on how this happens in practies.
> 
> 4. There is still a need to support legacy systems which do not have
> client-side facility for much in the way of dynamic content.
> 
> All these things are being dealt with, and we are working towards some useful
> knowledge. At the same time, the possibility of dynamic content allows the
> possiblity of creating dynamic widgeets on the client side, for example to
> let the user know that there is form content after the submit button.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Charles McCN