- From: Justin Thorp <juth@loc.gov>
- Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 09:58:24 -0400
- To: <w3c-wai-eo@w3.org>
just thinking... So... WCAG says whether or not content is accessible. It assumes that the content is being expressed with an accessibilty supported technology. What guidelines define whether or not a technology supports accessibility and POUR? This wasn't a question we would have had to ask 5+ years ago because the only Web technologies were created by the W3C. At some point aren't we going to need something more then the Rules for Supported Technology. http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/#accessibility-support It seems like inevitably there are going to be more Microsoft Silverlights and Adobe Apollos that are going to be popping up. It'd be good to give them guidance on how to make their technology accessibility-supported ****************** Justin Thorp US Library of Congress Web Services - Office of Strategic Initiatives e - juth@loc.gov p - 202/707-9541 >>> "Wayne Dick" <wed@csulb.edu> 5/31/2007 1:52:33 PM >>> An information technology is accessibility supported whenever the POUR criteria are supported by the technology itself or the communication interface of the technology can be programmatically determined by assistive technologies that support POUR. This definition is both accurate and verifiable. It is exact because the program interface must be constructed to be determined by accessible technology, and the POUR must be supported. Support for POUR is delineated exactly and measurably in the WCAG 2.0 Guidelines.
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