RE: Layout versus data tables proposal for null summary attribute

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-----Original Message-----
From: david poehlman [mailto:david.poehlman@handsontechnologeyes.com] 
Sent: Friday, August 27, 2004 2:57 pm
To: John M Slatin; Patrick H. Lauke; w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Subject: Re: Layout versus data tables proposal for null summary
attribute


no, what it suggests is that jaws together with ie make up a user agent
in this instance.

Johnnie Apple Seed
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Sory, but that if that's what the definition in UAAG 1.0 *means* it's
not what it *says*.  It *says* that the definition "includes" assistive
technolgies and other tools that help in retrieving and rendering
content.hat's not what the definition says

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John M Slatin" <john_slatin@austin.utexas.edu>
To: "Patrick H. Lauke" <redux@splintered.co.uk>; <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Sent: Friday, August 27, 2004 3:53 PM
Subject: RE: Layout versus data tables proposal for null summary
attribute





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Patrick H. Lauke wrote:
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Arguably it's IE that is the user agent, as it retrieves and renders the

content.
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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.
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This suggests that there are two user agents operating in tandem, since
both IE and JAWS are retrieving and rendering content .

John

Received on Friday, 27 August 2004 20:13:55 UTC