- From: Jon Gunderson <jongund@uiuc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 15:31:48 -0500
- To: "David Poehlman" <poehlman1@home.com>
- Cc: w3c-wai-ua@w3.org
David, Our next meeting is tomorrow? Jon At 03:58 PM 5/15/2001 -0400, you wrote: >the rsvp I got says the meeting is tomorrow? > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Tim Lacy" <timla@microsoft.com> >To: <w3c-wai-ua@w3.org> >Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 3:44 PM >Subject: My input on 6.6 > > >First, my apologies for not being on the telecon today - I have several >tasks due tomorrow, and will be pleasantly surprised if I actually >complete them both. > >Ian has asked me to comment on the topic of 'standard API' as it relates >to 6.6. > >I am unable to add anything to Rich's comments on this, and agree with >him completely. For all the reasons he gave, the implementation of >standard API's is critical to interoperability, which in turn is core to >creating an accessible web experience. > >One thing I used to hear over and over again from AT vendors was that >they had to special-case everything in order to work with all the >different DOM's (not just www, but all application DOM's). By going to >standard API's (and in our case, implementing API improvements based on >AT vendor feedback), this problem is finally starting to diminish. > >The key is that the programmatic interface between the AT and the system >needs to be robust, full-featured, rigorously tested, and widely >adopted. I am unaware of any 'custom' API's that even come close to >this. > >My dos centavos, anyway. > >-T > Jon Gunderson, Ph.D., ATP Coordinator of Assistive Communication and Information Technology Division of Rehabilitation - Education Services MC-574 College of Applied Life Studies 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 WWW: http://www.w3.org/wai/ua
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