- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 17:21:29 -0400 (EDT)
- To: WAI AU Guidelines <w3c-wai-au@w3.org>
Lauren Wood raised the question of whether it was necessary for authoring tools to provide the functionalities required in section 3.3 and 3.4 themselves, or whether it would be sufficient for them to expose those functions to an interface which could be used by an assisitve technology. My opinion is that they need to be available in the tool itself. The simplest assistive technology I know of is the font size selection, which doesn't work through any interface, but does introduce the problems of reduced navigation speed and capacity whic hare met by users of serial media, or people with concentration or short-term memory problems. This is an issue which has recently been discussed in the User Agent group, and they appear to have decided that nearly all of the functions required were deemed necessary to have as native implementation. (The changes wwill be in their next working draft.) cheers Charles McCathieNevile --Charles McCathieNevile mailto:charles@w3.org phone: +1 617 258 0992 http://www.w3.org/People/Charles W3C Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI MIT/LCS - 545 Technology sq., Cambridge MA, 02139, USA
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