- From: Charles Oppermann <chuckop@MICROSOFT.com>
- Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 16:08:22 -0800
- To: w3c-wai-ua@w3.org
<< I think that DOM holds the same promises. There is one problem though. MSAA in my opinion is a repair strategy, where DOM is potentially a real solution. What we need is a globally standard way to build a DOM. Then from the DOM we can start rendering for whatever user profile. What we do not need is visual rendering with the side effect that it gives you also a DOM-view. The ideal DOM is still far away. >> Remember what DOM means - Document Object Model. It's not an assistive technology interface, it's not even a user interface object model. It's an object model for documents - HTML documents to be specific. Text object model developers find DOM inadequate to represent higher end markup and layout. I caution the group not to put too much stock into DOM. While I feel it's very useful to improve access to the web content - that is one small piece of a users experience with a computer.
Received on Monday, 8 February 1999 19:08:29 UTC