- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 13:30:07 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Jon Gunderson <jongund@staff.uiuc.edu>
- cc: w3c-wai-ua@w3.org
There are actual guidelines for apple (as opposed to promotional material, which is all I could find at the site listed) at http://www.apple.com/techpubs/mac/HIGuidelines/HIGuidelines-2.htm Charles On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Jon Gunderson wrote: Checkpoint 7.2.1 Provide programatic access for dependent user agents to the user interface by using operating system and development language accessibility resources and conventions. Technique Most of the current assistive technology available to improve the access to computer based technologies for people with disabilities is designed to provide access to non-specific software applications with in an operating system. User agents rendering WWW content is just one type of application the assistive technology is providing access. For software applications to be compatible with these types of assistive technologies they need to follow standard operating system conventions for accessibility and in the case of some types of operating systems use accessibility APIs to provide additional information to assistive technologies. Operating systems with accessibility APIs include this functionality in standard controls and display rendering APIs. User agents which use standard controls and rendering APIs will have a basic level of compatibility with existing assistive technologies. The complexity of visual rendering of WWW content though often requires additional information about the content rendered which means making more information about the content available through the accessibility API. Current operating system accessible design guidelines: 1. Microsoft Windows (http://www.microsoft.com/enable/dev/) 2. Java (http://www.sun.com/access/ and http://www.austin.ibm.com/sns/snsjavag.htm) 3. Apple Macintosh (http://www.apple.com/education/k12/disability/) Current accessibility application programming interfaces: 1. Active Accessibility (http://www.microsoft.com/enable/msaa/) 2. Java accessibility API (provide URL later) 3. Java Swing Classes (provide URL later) Jon Gunderson, Ph.D., ATP Coordinator of Assistive Communication and Information Technology Division of Rehabilitation - Education Services University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign 1207 S. Oak Street Champaign, IL 61820 Voice: 217-244-5870 Fax: 217-333-0248 E-mail: jongund@uiuc.edu WWW: http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~jongund http://www.als.uiuc.edu/InfoTechAccess --Charles McCathieNevile mailto:charles@w3.org phone: +1 617 258 0992 http://www.w3.org/People/Charles W3C Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI MIT/LCS - 545 Technology sq., Cambridge MA, 02139, USA
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