- From: Jon Gunderson <jongund@staff.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 08:35:35 -0600
- To: Charles McCathieNevile <charlesn@srl.rmit.EDU.AU>, WAI GL <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
- Cc: WAI UA group <w3c-wai-ua@w3.org>
Scripts and embedded objects are really new user interfaces that need to follow the UA guidelines. It would be difficult, if not impossible, to have a browser user agent smart enough to figure out what a script or embedded application is doing and how to create an accessible user interface. Therefore people doing scripting or writing embedded applications need to follow UA and GL guidelines for making there part of the interface accessible (providing keyboard events for all functions, for example). This said many people would probably raise the complance flag. many script writers will not consider accessibility guidelines (or even know about them). So the user agent may be able to provide simple repair techniques, for example providing keyboard navigation and synthesis of certain keyboard events bound explicitly to a particular element (i.e ignore bubbling of events). This may repair many simple scripts to provide some level of accessibility. Jon Jon Gunderson, Ph.D., ATP Coordinator of Assistive Communication and Information Technology Division of Rehabilitation - Education Services University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign 1207 S. Oak Street Champaign, IL 61820 Voice: 217-244-5870 Fax: 217-333-0248 E-mail: jongund@uiuc.edu WWW: http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~jongund http://www.als.uiuc.edu/InfoTechAccess
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