- From: Harvey Bingham <hbingham@acm.org>
- Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 14:05:19 -0400
- To: w3c-wai-ua@w3.org
The Education and Outreach Group has a task to provide a FAQ for the UA guidelines and techniques to support them. The issue 212 raised the concern about what was the basis for describing User Agents that were covered by the UA GL. Q: To what user agents do the UA Guidelines apply? A: The WAI User Agent Working Group intentionally chose to limit the intended audience of user agents in version 1.0 of the User Agent Guidelines to graphical desktop user agents. (e.g., graphical browsers, media players). In part, this was decided because assistive technology developers were concerned by the requirements for communication with other user agents. The WG chose to address general purpose graphical user agents instead of specialized user agents because the latter generally address their target audience well and are not intended to be universally accessible. New types of user agents will continue to evolve. These will have better support for building on the DOM. The UA Guidelines may need to consider in a later version other aspects of these types.
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