- From: <lguarino@adobe.com>
- Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 16:20:29 -0800
- To: John M Slatin <john_slatin@austin.utexas.edu>
- Cc: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
I think there are two related issues here: 1) What can we assume about the user agent as we write our guidelines, that is, what part of the accessibility is the responsibility of the user agent developer, rather than the author. 2) What do we require about user agents when deciding whether a technology is acceptable for use at all. Currently, guideline 4.2 says that there must be a UAAG1 compliant user agent for a technology in order to use it. I assume this applies to HTML, as well as other technologies. If there is no UAAG1 complaint browser for HTML, does this mean that authors can't use HTML? Some comments have also related to a different issue, which is how available the user agent(s) is. The guidelines are silent on that issue, but people are worried that there may not be a suitable user agent for their platform. This concerns surfaces a lot in the Javascript comments.
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