- From: <thatch@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 20:03:37 -0500
- To: David Poehlman <poehlman@clark.net>
- cc: Jon Gunderson <jongund@staff.uiuc.edu>, w3c-wai-ua@w3.org
HI David. I am missing urgency of the discussion. HPR is, as far as I am concerned, a browser. The fact that it uses netscape for the html stream doesn't make any difference. What should be important to the UA group is presenting content. At least I wish that were your primary concern. My definition of "Assistive Technology" is technology created for and sold to people with disabilities. With that definition, it is a no-brainer (definition excluded), HPR is an assistive technology. It is designed by and for blind folks. As far as "operating independently of a browser," this is a concept that is close to irrelevant. If you create an application that uses mshtml.dll, (did I spell that correctly?) or the other IE component which I can't spell, are you operating independently of a browser? The answer has to be - who cares? The final question is how do you present web content. Jim Thatcher IBM Special Needs Systems www.ibm.com/sns thatch@us.ibm.com (512)838-0432 David Poehlman <poehlman@clark.net> on 07/28/99 07:17:44 PM To: Jon Gunderson <jongund@staff.uiuc.edu> cc: w3c-wai-ua@w3.org Subject: what makes an assistive technology an assistive technology? i'm still pondering last weeks minutes even after today's call and It occurs to me that it is possible that hpr can be classed as an assistive technology. Som ats already parse html and controls to some degree and there are some that take advantage of msaa in order to achieve an accessible interface because of its exposition of what ats ned. Since it is not a browser in the sense that it does not opperate independantly of another browser even though it only utilizes netscape for the data stream and since it is not a plug in because it acts on html and plug ins usually act on non html constructs, the only thing lefft it seems to me is that it is an at. I'll await the response from Jim and others on this but thought I'd toss this in in the meantime. Thanks! -- Hands-On Technolog(eye)s Touching The Internet: mailto:poehlman@clark.net Voice: 301.949.7599 ftp://ftp.clark.net/pub/poehlman http://poehlman.clark.net Dynamic Solutions Inc. Best of service for your small business network needs! http://www.dnsolutions.com ---sig off---
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