- From: Ian B. Jacobs <ij@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 13:07:21 -0500
- To: Aaron Leventhal <aaronl@netscape.com>
- CC: w3c-wai-ua@w3.org
Aaron Leventhal wrote: > Ian B. Jacobs wrote: > >> - AT developers may not, in practice, be interested in >> implementing the DOM, even though in the past they have [snip] > In addition, the W3C DOM does not say anything about user intefaces, > unless they are written in markup, which is not always the case. How > does the UAAG suggest we expose information about our user interface > widgets? This is covered in checkpoint 6.4: 1. Provide programmatic read access to user agent user interface controls. The checkpoint goes on to explain our preferred API "cascade", namely: - A W3C Recommendation (if applicable) - A publicly documented API for communication with ATs. Either one will work to satisfy the requirement. - Ian [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/CR-UAAG10-20010912/guidelines#tech-ui-access-api -- Ian Jacobs (ij@w3.org) http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs Tel: +1 718 260-9447
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