- From: <lguarino@adobe.com>
- Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2005 21:56:29 -0700
- To: John M Slatin <john_slatin@austin.utexas.edu>
- Cc: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
> Loretta wrote (in response to Gregg): > <blockquote> > I think the screen reader access would need to be provided by the user > agent for the technology in which you > are creating the user interface. So this question would definitely > affect baseline > </blockquote>Hmmm. I don't think I understand this. There seems to be an > implied separation between the user agent and the screen reader that > makes the user agent *responsible* somehow for providing screen reader > functionality? Am I reading that right? Strictly speaking, from a UAAG conformance claim perspective, the browser/screen reader combination would be considered a single User Agent. You would make claims to satisfy the Speech contenet type of UAAG based on their combined functionality. But I don't think this implicit inclusion of assistive technology is obvious when we refer to user agents, so I have been calling out the assistive technology explicitly. Section 508 fundamentally requires that the browser/software application provide support for APIs that would enable assistive technology to support it. But it doesn't actually require that there exist assistive technology that does support it. I think we are suggesting that all pieces of the software chain be considered when selecting baseline technologies.
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