- From: Peter Korn <peter.korn@oracle.com>
- Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2013 15:37:27 -0700
- To: Mary Jo Mueller <maryjom@us.ibm.com>
- CC: Gregg Vanderheiden <gv@trace.wisc.edu>, Michael Pluke <Mike.Pluke@castle-consult.com>, "public-wcag2ict-tf@w3.org" <public-wcag2ict-tf@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <51AFBDA7.7030102@oracle.com>
Great. I've updated Variant #3a in preparation for Mike's survey. Any additional tinkering, let's deal with it through survey comments. Peter On 6/5/2013 3:32 PM, Mary Jo Mueller wrote: > > I think we've reached a quorum. Woo hoo! Time to survey. > > Best regards, > > Mary Jo Mueller > IBM Research ► Human Ability & Accessibility Center > 11501 Burnet Road, Bldg. 904 Office 5D017, Austin, Texas 78758 > 512-286-9698 T/L 363-9698 _ > __maryjom@us.ibm.com_ <mailto:hnielsen@us.ibm.com> > > _www.ibm.com/able_ and _w3.ibm.com/able__ > __IBM Accessibility_ <http://www.facebook.com/IBMAccessibility> on > Facebook ▼ _IBMAccess_ <http://twitter.com/IBMAccess> on Twitter ▼ > _IBM Accessibility_ <http://www.linkedin.com/e/vgh/2419815/> on LinkedIn/ > “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and > become more, you are a leader.” ~ John Quincy Adams/ > > Inactive hide details for Gregg Vanderheiden ---06/05/2013 05:10:11 > PM---That's great Peter, that covers all my issues, yourGregg > Vanderheiden ---06/05/2013 05:10:11 PM---That's great Peter, that > covers all my issues, yours , and Mikes too (I think) > > From: Gregg Vanderheiden <gv@trace.wisc.edu> > To: Peter Korn <peter.korn@oracle.com>, > Cc: Michael Pluke <Mike.Pluke@castle-consult.com>, > "public-wcag2ict-tf@w3.org" <public-wcag2ict-tf@w3.org> > Date: 06/05/2013 05:10 PM > Subject: 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/ > -------------------------------------------------------- > Gregg Vanderheiden Ph.D. > Director Trace R&D Center > Professor Industrial & Systems Engineering > and Biomedical Engineering University of Wisconsin-Madison > Technical Director - Cloud4all Project - _http://Cloud4all.info_ > <http://cloud4all.info/> > Co-Director, Raising the Floor - International - > _http://Raisingthefloor.org_ <http://raisingthefloor.org/> > and the Global Public Inclusive Infrastructure Project - > _http://GPII.net_ <http://gpii.net/> > > On Jun 5, 2013, at 5:57 PM, Peter Korn <_peter.korn@oracle.com_ > <mailto:peter.korn@oracle.com>> wrote: > > Gregg, > > Rather than getting into minutia, let me just jump to Mary Jo's > proposal: > > <snip> > > So I think we should go with Mary Jo's version. > > > *MARY JO WROTE* > *- 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.* > > (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 > > -- _ > __<oracle_sig_logo.gif>_ <http://www.oracle.com/> > Peter Korn | Accessibility Principal > Phone: _+1 650 5069522_ <tel:+1%20650%205069522> > 500 Oracle Parkway | Redwood City, CA 94064_ > __<green-for-email-sig_0.gif>_ > <http://www.oracle.com/commitment>Oracle is committed to > developing practices and products that help protect the environment > > -- Oracle <http://www.oracle.com> Peter Korn | Accessibility Principal Phone: +1 650 5069522 <tel:+1%20650%205069522> 500 Oracle Parkway | Redwood City, CA 94064 Green Oracle <http://www.oracle.com/commitment> Oracle is committed to developing practices and products that help protect the environment
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