- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 03:08:09 -0400 (EDT)
- To: thatch@us.ibm.com
- cc: Jon Gunderson <jongund@staff.uiuc.edu>, w3c-wai-ua@w3.org
Seems to me to open up an interesting issue. It is possible to create a user agent that is very handy for a specific group of people (it has certainly been done for people who are interested in graphic rendering of websites on a computer monitor) without making an accessible (by which I think we understand universally useful) tool. In the specific case of highlight and identify the selection, I think the functional requirement is that the user can make sure that the selcted area is identified in a way which is useful to them (within the limitations of the User Agent's rendering methods). Does that sound like an essential requirement, and if so is there a way we can word it better? (If not, is it a lower priority, or a poorly conceived idea? Or have I just got the cart by the horse...) Charles McCN On Wed, 18 Aug 1999 thatch@us.ibm.com wrote: What you have said is there exist assistive technologies that require X. Therefore we have made X a priority 1 requirement for user agents. How do you determine the quote weight endquote of X before you decide that it is heavy enough to have this effect. I am trying to look at this from a home page reader perspective; I could not care less that some AT uses selection for speaking.
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