- From: Charles Oppermann <chuckop@MICROSOFT.com>
- Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 17:36:51 -0800
- To: Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>, Jon Gunderson <jongund@staff.uiuc.edu>
- Cc: w3c-wai-ua@w3.org
<< It may be true that MSAA provides more functionality today and possibly in the near future. And that it is more general than providing access to HTML or XML documents. But it is not an open standard and as such, makes it difficult for W3C to promote. >> Once again, we're not asking the W3C to promote our interface. There is no need to be specific about what interface should be used. It's unfair to ask Microsoft to support MSAA on Unix, just like it would be unfair to ask Opera or LYNX to support all of DOM - for reasons of being lightweight, they may not want to. There is no one solution. The guidelines could simply state "Provide a programmatic interface to allow browsing the document contents." as a potential solution to some access problems. -Chuck
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