The UA Definition Again...

Hi there,

For the survey...

I'm trying to sort out the user agent wording.

We'd agreed on parts 1 and 2 (Jim was finishing wordsmithing on 2.2  
with regard to the wording for presentation within the bounds of the  
primary UA).

The stumbling block was on part 3.3 thus:

If the following three conditions are met then it is a Generated User  
Agent (with inaccessible interface) and Must Conform to UAAG:

1) If the user interface is generated by the interpretation of either
a procedural or declarative language; and
2) If this interpretation is by a Primary User Agent, User Agent
Extension or Plug-In; and
3) If user interaction is not passed to and from the Primary User
Agent, User Agent Extension or Plug-In, or if user interaction does
not modify the Document Object Model of its containing document.

Now it seems that from my mail:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ua/2009JulSep/0082.html

It is possible to capture keystrokes and not pass them on AND
make changes to the DOM without forcing a DOMMutationEvent.

I now want to get this sorted so I can move on to my other 2  
(dependant) action items. So I'd like to make another proposal for  
part 3, thus:

If the following two conditions are met then it is a Web-based User  
Agent and Must Conform to UAAG:

1) If the user interface is generated as part of, or using, any w3c  
specified technology; and
2) If the generated interface, intentionally or unintentionally,  
hides its interaction from the technology used to generate it.

Notes:
1) this means if the interface is created from web content (even if  
code used for generating the interface only has hooks into html, such  
as JavaScript etc); and
2) if input is consumed or output hidden from the DOM Updating  
procedures of the Primary UA or Extension / Plug in.


Cheers
Si.

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Received on Thursday, 24 September 2009 16:35:12 UTC