- From: <boland@nist.gov>
- Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 08:11:14 -0400
- To: Gregg Vanderheiden <gv@trace.wisc.edu>
- Cc: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
> 1) What do we mean by a technology. Do we mean a particular specification > or a general type? I'm wondering whether the current definition of "technology" in the WCAG2.0 Glossary [1] is sufficient to answer Question 1 previous. I found a definition of "technology" (from [2]) as "electronic or digital products or systems considered as a group"). Although this definition is overly general, does it have aspects we might want to consider in a possible revision of our definition of "technology" (for example, the "grouping" concept, which seems to me to be absent in the WCAG2.0 definition, which lists items in singular terms, that is, "markup language, programming language, style sheet, data format, or API")? > > 2) What if there is an extension of a technology that someone developed. Is > it included? What about modules that extend a technology? If they are > supported by User agents including AT - shouldn't they be part of baseline? > Are they? The QA Framework: Specification Guidelines (extensibility section [3] gives some discussion of extensibility, with links to other discussions on extensibility and versioning. Perhaps some of this information might be useful in consideration of an answer to Question 2 previous? > > 3) What if there are features of a technology that are NOT supported by AT. > And if using them would make a page (or that part of the page) inaccessible? > Can they be used WITHOUT providing an accessible alternative? What is a definition of a "feature"? How granular do we want to be? For example, CSS2.1 [4] defines a feature as "a section or subsection of a specification". Thanks and best wishes Tim Boland NIST [1]: http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/appendixA.html [2]: http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/t/technology.html [3]: http://www.w3.org/TR/qaframe-spec/#extensions [4]: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/
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