- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 10:18:47 +0000 (UTC)
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Jim Ley wrote: >> >> No, it's not. WF2 incorporates by reference DOM2 HTML and DOM3 Core, >> among others. You can't implement a WF2 UA without support for them: > > So WF2 requires scripting support in the UA's? As I pointed out, no, it doesn't: # Implementations that do not support scripting (or which have their # scripting features disabled) are exempt from supporting the events and # DOM interfaces mentioned in this specification. Other aspects of this # specification that are defined in terms of an events model must still # act as if events were supported. > Can I request once again that the WHATWG get some people with some > accessibility knowledge into the WG since This is a completely open mailing list, anyone can subscribe if they wish to contribute. I happen to know there are several accessibility experts on this list; they are all welcome to post their opinions and feedback will be taken into account. > requiring scripting is simply not possible, the AT's are simply not able > to deal with it. That is a bug with the assistive technologies. There is nothing about scripting that intrinsicly makes it non-accessible, it is the APIs that scripting interact with that can have accessibility problems. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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