RE: More scripting thoughts Pt. 2 (was RE: Accessible road maps)

Mike Barta said:
>
>  I would disagree here.  A web page can be a document, it can just as
> easily be an application.  If we consider that page == file then the
> point is well made, but if page == URI then the browser, while being
> capable of displaying simple files, can be seen as an output device for
> whatever lives at that URI.
>
The key phrase here is output device, it is an interface or document for
getting or sending information.  It is not, on the client side, a program.


> As a guideline we need to recommend practices for making accessible
> experiences for both of these cases by not limiting our focus to a
> single technology, e.g. html, but to any technology used for URI
> addressable 'content'.
>
I think we need to make the Web accessible as a document or interface
medium.  I think we need to make networked programs (TCP/IP not HTTP) that
have user interfaces other than a browser accessible as well.

-Steve

Received on Wednesday, 2 June 2004 17:33:43 UTC