Re: Two variants for the redefinition of "accessibility services of software"

Gregg,

Rather than getting into minutia, let me just jump to Mary Jo's proposal:

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> So I think we should go with Mary Jo's version.
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> *MARY JO WROTE*
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>     *- services provided by an operating system, user agent, or other
>     platform software  that can be used by non-web documents or
>     software to expose information about the user interface and events
>     to assistive technologies.*
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> (if you don't like USED maybe use    "relied upon"

I think we can go with a variant of this.  To wit:

    *- services provided by an operating system, user agent, or other
    platform software that ENABLE non-Web documents or software to
    expose information about the user interface and events to assistive
    technologies.*


The software may or may not actively use these accessibility services.  
To be an accessibility service, it has to enable something to happen.  
And "exposing information" isn't as active - it is something one could 
reasonably say is being done by markup (e.g. "ALT=..." is exposing 
information, and the underlying accessibility service is utilizing that 
exposed information).


Just as I wouldn't quibble with high school physics teaching Newtonian 
physics and omitting relativity, I don't see any reason to quibble with 
accessibility services "enabling non-Web documents" to this audience.


Peter

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