- From: jaap van lelieveld <Jaap.van.Lelieveld@inter.NL.net>
- Date: Mon, 09 Feb 1998 21:49:50 +0100
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
During WAI meetings guidelines for screen readers have been subject of the discussion. Inspirit by a little discussion after the Austin meeting I wrote a document with some ideas on this subject. It is my opinion the today's screen readers hardly assist the user properly to handle advanced information presentation methods. Therefore I made an overview of possible developments that could be implemented in screen readers. On the other hand we have the blessing of the Graphical User Interface (GUI) today and internet where "the information needed" is or will become available in the future. This requires a more advanced approach that is not available either for most screen readers. I have some ideas in this area too. This of course does not mean none of the features mentioned below is implemented in any screen reader. These kind of features though should be more common. Notes: * This document must not be looked at as an overview of user requirements. It must be looked at as input for a discussion both at the users side to see what more can be done and at the producers side to allow them to ... offer new features. * The order of the items below does not say anything about the priority. The interest for one or another feature will be different depending on the way the user uses his system. * These kind of enhancements are not intended to be used by experienced users only. On the contrary: they should help unexperienced users to learn to use their system more easily. In general terms these features should be used to explain more about the outlook of information and must help people to access (navigate through), read and also write information. I will not submit the whole thing through this list, but if you are interested pick it up from: HTTP://www.inter.nl.net/users/jvleliev/ebutc.htm and send me your comments. Best regards, Jaap Message from: Jaap van Lelieveld The Netherlands Chairman of EBU commission on Technical Devices and Services E-mail: Jaap.van.Lelieveld@inter.nl.net USING: YARN V0.92 as an offline reader, and UQWK / OLMENU under UNIX for mail and news transfer
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