- From: David Poehlman <poehlman1@home.com>
- Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 18:17:56 -0500
- To: "WAI-IG" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>, "Joe Clark" <joeclark@joeclark.org>, "Kynn Bartlett" <kynn-edapta@idyllmtn.com>
to settle this, we take a passage from uaag its self. It is not because of the evildry of lynx that it is not a target: begin quote: This document was designed specifically to improve the accessibility of user agents with multimedia capabilities running in the following type of environment (typically that of a desktop computer): * The operating environment includes a keyboard; * Assistive technologies may be used in the operating environment and may communicate with the conforming user agent; This document is not designed so that user agents on other types of platforms (e.g., handheld devices, kiosks, etc.) will readily conform. This document does not forbid conformance by any user agent, but some requirements (e.g., implementation of certain APIs) are not likely to be satisfied on environments other than the target environment. Future work by the UAWG may address the accessibility of user agents running on handheld devices, etc. The target user agent is one designed for the general public to handle general-purpose content in ordinary operating conditions. It is expected that a conforming user agent will typically consist of a Web browser, one or more media players, and possibly other components. end quote. As we developped the document, lynx was one of our guide posts becaue it has many features to point to that satisfy uaag requirements if not checkpoints. I'm not deffending lynx here but would be proud if I was because lynx was where I began my work on the web and my interaction with it and to which I still return often. I wanted to provide the fact from which my rather veague statement flowed. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kynn Bartlett" <kynn-edapta@idyllmtn.com> To: "David Poehlman" <poehlman1@home.com>; "WAI-IG" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>; "Joe Clark" <joeclark@joeclark.org> Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2001 5:42 PM Subject: Re: Minimal Browser Capabilities At 5:46 PM -0500 12/26/01, David Poehlman wrote: >I almost missed this comment. Lynx is not a target of uaag. Why not? (Well, I suppose it's because we all recognize that Lynx is such a limited HTML-viewer that it's unreasonable to require that it be accessible, because it lacks basic functionality beyond HTML display -- but then that was my point to begin with.) --Kynn -- Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com> http://kynn.com Chief Technologist, Idyll Mountain http://idyllmtn.com Web Accessibility Expert-for-hire http://kynn.com/resume January Web Accessibility eCourse http://kynn.com/+d201
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