Re: Responses to Tantek Çelik issues raised during third last call of UAAG 1.0

Regrets. My son is playing in the Triple Crown World Series this week.


Rich Schwerdtfeger
Senior Technical Staff Member
IBM Accessibility Center
Research Division
EMail/web: schwer@us.ibm.com

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -
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                    "Ian B. Jacobs"                                                            
                    <ij@w3.org>           To:     Jon Gunderson <jongund@uiuc.edu>             
                    Sent by:              cc:     Tantek Celik <tantek@cs.stanford.edu>,       
                    w3c-wai-ua-requ        w3c-wai-ua@w3.org                                   
                    est@w3.org            Subject:     Re: Responses to Tantek Çelik issues    
                                           raised    during      third  last call of UAAG 1.0  
                                                                                               
                    07/09/2001                                                                 
                    12:13 PM                                                                   
                                                                                               
                                                                                               



Jon Gunderson wrote:
>
> With event bubbling model used for scripting, every element potentially
can
> be interactive.

No, potentially "enabled".

> The user agent can make pretty good assumptions from the
> markup that elements with an "on" event hander, marked up as a link or
> input controls is an interactive element.  Other elements maybe
interactive
> based on scripting, which is difficult or impossible for the user agent
to
> determine from markup.  Maybe the term non-interactive needs to defined
in
> terms of "recognized through markup".

I think the document is already sufficient on this front.

1) The definition states:
    "A non-interactive element is an element that, by specification,
     does not have associated behaviors."

   It is thus only by virtue of specification (whether markup language
or
   style sheets) that something would be considered interactive or
non-interactive.

2) The applicability provision is always in force anyway. So if not
recognized, it
   doesn't apply.

 _ Ian

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Received on Wednesday, 1 August 2001 22:00:22 UTC