- From: Jon Gunderson <jongund@staff.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 08:52:36 -0700
- To: thatch@us.ibm.com, w3c-wai-ua@w3.org
Jim, Some types of assistive technology, like TextHelp, ZoomText and Aurora, use selection to identify information to speak. This is especially important for browsers which do not have a cursor for AT to track. A user could select a section of text using the mouse (or hopefully directly the keyboard someday) and use one of these assistive technologies to read the selected information. TextHelp and Aurora speech output features are designed for people with learning disabilities and ZoomText is for people with visual impairments. This why it was given a high priority. Jon At 05:20 PM 8/17/99 -0500, thatch@us.ibm.com wrote: > > >Here is 6.6: > >Allow the user to control selection highlighting (e.g., foreground >and background color). > >Sure that is a nifty idea. It is also another setting, which is complexity. >But, since selection is usually reverse video, my question is, has that >ever been done before? Has this checkpoint been given adequate >thought? > >If it has never been done before, if no one has seen selectable >selection colors, then I think this is an example of a priority one >checkpoint that belongs in the priority three bucket, at best. > >Jim Thatcher >IBM Special Needs Systems >www.ibm.com/sns >thatch@us.ibm.com >(512)838-0432 > 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
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