- From: Jon Gunderson <jongund@staff.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 09:25:08 -0700
- To: w3c-wai-ua@w3.org
- Cc: jbrewer@w3.org
I think that the labels we use for the conformance categories need to be clear and much our problem I thnk center on not having clear labels with the conformance issue. The current labels ("inter-operable and non-interoperable) in Ian's proposal do not mean anything to anybody outside our working group and therefore people are worried that they will be miss used (I agree with that concenr). The current categoies used in our document are not also not entirely clear (Desktop Graphical User Agent and Dependent User Agent). The conformance categories should be clear to our intended audiences. I propose that we use terminology similar to: Category 1: Desktop Graphical User Agent Category 2: Non-Graphical Assistive Technology User Agent I think these categories are clear in their meaning and who is intended to conform to them. I think the main difference between the two is the issue of using accessibility APIs and exporting internal document representations to assistive technologies. DGUA need to do this. The other issue on the bubble between the two is device indepdendence. It is clear that we want it for DGUA. These are the two categories of user agents we know about right now and want to provide solutions. In general the checkpints should ask people to do whta ever they do in an accessible way. If I do graphics, keyboard and mouse: I should do it in an accessible way. If I do speech and keyboard, I do it in an acessible way. I think claiming conformance is an issue WAI as a whole needs to deal with and I will bring it up to Judy Brewer as a issue for the coordination group. Jon Jon Gunderson, Ph.D., ATP Coordinator of Assistive Communication and Information Technology Chair, W3C WAI User Agent Working Group 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.w3.org/wai/ua http://www.als.uiuc.edu/InfoTechAccess
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