RE: R23. Speech as an input on any application should be able to be optional

I think the point of the requirement is that our spec should not do anything that means that speech is required to be used for a specific input. We can't prevent webapps from disabling mouse and keyboard input because that's outside of the scope of our work. I think this is similar to our requirements around raw audio capture. It might be possible to capture raw audio (for example, using the Media Capture API http://www.w3.org/TR/media-capture-api/) in ways that have nothing to do with our spec, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't have appropriate safeguards in our spec. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: public-xg-htmlspeech-request@w3.org [mailto:public-xg-htmlspeech-
> request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Olli Pettay
> Sent: Monday, November 22, 2010 7:19 AM
> To: Bjorn Bringert
> Cc: public-xg-htmlspeech@w3.org
> Subject: Re: R23. Speech as an input on any application should be able to be
> optional
> 
> On 11/18/2010 08:36 PM, Bjorn Bringert wrote:
> > This doesn't seem like a requirement on the API, but a requirement on
> > how application authors use it.
> 
> 
> I agree. Webapps can always effectively disable all the mouse and
> keyboard input if they really want to and require speech.
> That would be a silly app, but I don't see any way to prevent it.
> 
> 
> -Olli
> 
> >
> > /Bjorn
> >
> > On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Dan Burnett<dburnett@voxeo.com>
> wrote:
> >> Group,
> >>
> >> This is the next of the requirements to discuss and prioritize based on our
> >> ranking approach [1].
> >>
> >> This email is the beginning of a thread for questions, discussion, and
> >> opinions regarding our first draft of Requirement 23 [2].
> >>
> >> Please discuss via email as we agreed at the Lyon f2f meeting.
> Outstanding
> >> points of contention will be discussed live at an upcoming teleconference.
> >>
> >> -- dan
> >>
> >> [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xg-
> htmlspeech/2010Oct/0024.html
> >> [2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xg-
> htmlspeech/2010Oct/att-0001/speech.html#r23
> >
> >
> >
>

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