- From: Steven Pemberton <steven.pemberton@cwi.nl>
- Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 13:10:20 +0200
- To: "Ian Jacobs" <ij@w3.org>
- Cc: <w3c-wai-ua@w3.org>
Thanks for the reply. > IJ: As Jon points out in his email, DOM is required for Level A > conformance. We have received a lot of comments, such as "What about > kiosks or environments where there is no communication with > assistive technologies?" to which we answered (in section 1.2 > of the document): we are not aiming at those user agents for UAAG 1.0. > > Nor are we concerned in UAAG 1.0 with mobile devices or other > environments where DOM implementation would be a heavy footprint > burden. > > We are requiring the DOM so that assistive technologies have access > to content in a manner that allows them to track changes to > content in a structured and efficient manner. So if I have a voice browser that follows all the other guidelines, but doesn't have scripting, it cannot be level A compliant? Steven
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