- From: Kerstin Goldsmith <kerstin.goldsmith@oracle.com>
- Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 16:07:23 -0800
- To: wendy@w3.org, Michael Cooper <michaelc@watchfire.com>, "WAI GL (E-mail)" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Hi, Techniques folks et al: I am sure this question has come up, but I thought I would try to get some more clarification since it is coming up a lot over here these days: How are we going to fit rich-client technologies that are javascript/DHTML based into the overall guidelines? It seems like rich clients are a mix between traditional web content and desktop clients? For example, making a rich client usable without an associated stylesheet would be almost impossible to do. It is also almost impossible to use ONLY relative units for all parts of the application. Additionally, there is the question of whether or not some kind of equivalent facilitation will be permissable - like an onmouseover event that allows non-disabled persons to use a device-dependent hovering technique to view a certain part of an application, where the same information is available to disabled users only through drill-down? So, what about device-independence? Are we going to be developing independent techniques for DHTML? Or, are certain WCAG 2.0 success criteria going to apply only to certain application or compliance profiles? I realize we can probably discuss this at the face-to-face, but wanted to get the question out there ahead of time. Thanks, -kerstin
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