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

That's great Peter,  

that covers all my issues,  yours , and Mikes too (I think) 

> - 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.



Nice wordsmithing. 

(and thanks MJ for the inspiration leading to this)

Gregg
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On Jun 5, 2013, at 5:57 PM, Peter Korn <peter.korn@oracle.com> wrote:

> Gregg,
> 
> Rather than getting into minutia, let me just jump to Mary Jo's proposal:
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> <snip>
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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:
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> - 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).
> 
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> 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.
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> 
> Peter
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