Re: User Contexts: identifying assistive technologies

James Craig <jcraig@apple.com> wrote:
> What about adding type tokens, such as "screenreader", "magnifier", etc.

Excellent. An AT can support more than one function. For example, Orca used to
be both a screen reader and a screen magnifier until the roles were separated
with the creation of the Gnome-Shell magnifier. Equally, functions can be
divided in interesting ways, for example with one tool for speech output and
another for braille.

I would lean towards bit flags, with named constants and an int or long
attribute that can have flags set on it. I'm sure there are other solutions
but I think we need a little flexibility here.

I've updated the requirements accordingly but I haven't posted the document
yet. We need to decide how it will be maintained.

Received on Tuesday, 4 June 2013 08:44:29 UTC