- From: Gregory J. Rosmaita <oedipus@hicom.net>
- Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 21:05:28 -0400
- To: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, public-html@w3.org
aloha, maciej! thanks for your work in updating the HDP draft; there is, however, one point i did want to raise, however, which i didn't hear explicitly addressed in your post or the draft -- i still think the "support existing content" principle needs verbiage, to the effect that: "Browsers should retain support for residual/legacy markup designed for a specific purpose, such as accessibility. internationalization or device independence. Simply because new technologies and superior mechanisms have been identified, not all of them have been implemented. Moreover, disabled users are more likely to be users of "legacy technology" because it is the only technology that interacts correctly with third-party assistive technologies." or words to that effect... the point is, "mainstream" ATs are dependent upon support for newer technologies as they are adapted by "mainstream" UAs -- and as the bugs are worked out of both applications (the UA and the supporting AT) and successfully integrated into "mainstream" ATs after a relatively long period of time after they are widely supported by renderers... the NVDA/FireFox and FireVox models, as well as Orca and emacspeak on unix/linux boxes, will be early adapters, which is a great advance in the developmental cycle, but one which, unfortunately, is far from reaching a critical mass... gregory. ---------------------------------------------------------------- CONSERVATIVE, n. A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others. -- Ambrose Bierce, _The Devil's Dictionary_ ---------------------------------------------------------------- Gregory J. Rosmaita, oedipus@hicom.net Camera Obscura: http://www.hicom.net/~oedipus/index.html ----------------------------------------------------------------
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