- From: Bailey, Bruce <Bruce.Bailey@ed.gov>
- Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 08:07:01 -0400
- To: "Gregg Vanderheiden" <gv@trace.wisc.edu>
- Cc: <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
> "Except where the command or outcome cannot be described in a simple > sentence, all functionality is operable through a keyboard > interface without requiring specific timings for individual > keystrokes." But a simple sentences can fairly accurately capture the main ideas behind mousing or gaming, for example: Draw a freehand stick figure. Move your paddle to hit the ball. > This goes back to the approach first conceived by Doug > Wakefield and Judy Dixon, with the 'simple sentence' modifier. > There were people who had trouble with this because they thought it > implied that they needed to have natural language control added. > Hence the attempts to find other definitions. Was it not Doug and Judy that hit upon 'textually discernable'? <proposal> Except where the command or outcome cannot be discerned textually, all functionality is operable through a keyboard interface without requiring specific timings for individual keystrokes. </proposal>
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