Re: edit to note in 2.1.1 to make it more understandable.

Thanks Gregg.


Logged this in https://github.com/w3c/wcag2ict/issues/622 for easier 
reference and tracking.


Best.


On 4/2/2025 6:05 PM, Gregg Vanderheiden RTF wrote:
> TO  WCAG2ICT team.
>
>
> In EN 301 549  we came across the following sentence WCAG2ICT note on 
> 2.1.1. that is very hard to decipher.
>
>
>     NOTE 1:   Keyboard interface does not refer to a physical device
>     but to the interface between the software and any keyboard or
>     keyboard substitute (i.e., the interface where the software
>     accepts text or other keystroke input from the platform which may
>     come from a keyboard or from a keyboard alternative). Platform
>     software <https://www.w3.org/TR/wcag2ict-22/#platform-software>may
>     provide device independent input services to applications that
>     enable operation via such a keyboard interface. When software
>     supports such a device-independent service of the platform, and
>     the software or non-web document functionality is made fully
>     operable through the service, then this success criterion would be
>     satisfied.
>
>
> I suggest changing this sentence
>
> FROM
> Platform software 
> <https://www.w3.org/TR/wcag2ict-22/#platform-software>may provide 
> device independent input services to applications that enable 
> operation via such a keyboard interface.
> TO
> Platform software 
> <https://www.w3.org/TR/wcag2ict-22/#platform-software>may provide a 
> ‘keyboard interface’ that software can read instead of reading the 
> keyboard hardware directly.
> To make it much easier (or even possible?) to understand if you don’t 
> already know what it is trying to say.
> Comments?
> Agree?
> Issues?
> Tweaks?
> Gregg

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