- From: John M Slatin <john_slatin@austin.utexas.edu>
- Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 14:53:04 -0500
- To: "Patrick H. Lauke" <redux@splintered.co.uk>, <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
-----Original Message----- Patrick H. Lauke wrote: <blockquote> <blockquote> Arguably it's IE that is the user agent, as it retrieves and renders the content. </blockquote> Well, JAWS also retrieves and rends content. As an assistive technology, JAWS is clearly included in the definition of "user agent" provided in the Glossary for the User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0, which is what I quoted in my previous message: > > <blockquote cite="http://www.w3.org/TR/UAAG10/glossary.html#def-user-agent"> > ... > 2. Any software that retrieves and renders Web content for users. This may include Web browsers, media players, plug-ins, > and other programs - including assistive technologies - that help in retrieving and rendering Web content. > </blockquote> This suggests that there are two user agents operating in tandem, since both IE and JAWS are retrieving and rendering content . John
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