Re: Belated HTML WG last-call comments to User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0

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

Received on Tuesday, 22 May 2001 07:11:30 UTC