Re: Adapting Text proposals for next week's survey. (was Re: Adding Greg L's Adapting Text proposals to the Wiki in anticipation of a vote between J&K and H&I)

On 20/04/2017 16:50, Andrew Kirkpatrick wrote:
>
>> On 20/04/2017 16:34, White, Jason J wrote:
>>> [Jason] Possibly also Open Document Format (ODF) or Office Open XML
>>> (OOXML), both endorsed by ISO.
>>
>> Are those really Web Content formats? (I'd even question the inclusion
>> of PDF in WCAG 2.0, in this respect)
>
> According to the WCAG 2.0 definition, yes they can be.

Assuming you mean https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/#technologydef which 
says, to paraphrase, "anything rendered, played, executed by user agents"

and then https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/#useragentdef is defined as, to 
paraphrase, "anything that retrieves and presents web content".

isn't that a completely tautological set of definitions?

Doesn't this mean that anything (other than native executables) is 
effectively "Web Content" if it's loaded by a program, and that the 
program then is a "User Agent" since it loaded it? So would a 
Word/Excel/PowerPoint document be "Web Content"? Would a 3DS file be Web 
Content because it's loaded into 3D Studio Max, and therefore 3D Studio 
Max is a User Agent?

Or am I missing something?

P
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