- From: Jason White <jasonw@ariel.its.unimelb.edu.au>
- Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 09:36:29 +1000
- To: Web Content Guidelines <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
This is an action item from today's meeting. It has been proposed under guideline 1.3 that changes to the user interface (including state/value information) can be programmatically determined. Gregg offered the following scenario: A user interface control, when activated, causes some of the content to be replaced by a translation into another natural language. He then suggested that the proposed requirement would demand translation capabilities from the user agent, contrary to the intent of the success criterion. I shall argue that this is not so, and that the above scenario does not constitute an objection to the proposal. There are three cases: 1. The user interface control can be activated programmatically. In this case, the change can be made programmatically, namely by programmatically activating the u i control. The proposed success criterion is satisfied. 2. The u i control cannot be activated programmatically, but somehow the user agent is still able to translate the text (a very far-fetched possibility). In this case also the requirement is satisfied, which is the desired result. Case 3: The u i control can't be activated programmatically and the user agent can't perform the translation. The success criterion isn't met. These three cases are exhaustive and demonstrate that the above scenario does not create any problems for the proposed 1.3 criterion.
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