Re: finishing up MS04 - Spell Check

Re 3.2.3 Spell Check, on a purely editorial level we changed all the other SC to no longer use the wording "User agents provide"; instead, almost all use variations on "The user can". I definitely don't think it's appropriate to say "UA user interface provides" the spell checking, given that it's provided by the UA but in content, rather than in the UA UI, and while everything is ultimately implemented by the UA, it's no more specific to the UA UI than any other feature.

Also, I’m leery of the phrase "text created inside the user agent". Ideally spell checking would be available on any recognized text input field/control, regardless of whether the text was "created" by the user typing, or by pasting text that was created and copied from elsewhere, by assistive technology that changed the control's value programmatically, or by a feature of the user agent itself (such as auto-complete). Especially in this last case, it doesn't matter if the text were created by the user or by the user agent, as long as it ends up in a text input control in content. In contrast, we don't expect spell checking on every text input field in the UA user interface, such as the address bar or the File Open dialog box. Similarly, we don't expect spell checking on static text controls in content, regardless of whether the text is created by the user agent or by the content (e.g. scripts), except when it's showing text the user can still edit directly or indirectly 
(e.g. static text that's part of a composite control, showing text that the user cannot edit directly but can edit using nearby buttons).

Also, could we at least recommend that user agents also provide assistance with grammar, in addition to the assistance with spelling? For many people with cognitive disabilities or whose native language is signed, written grammar is at least as difficult as spelling.

     Thanks,
     Greg

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Subject: finishing up MS04
From: Jeanne Spellman <jeanne@w3.org>
To: UAWG <w3c-wai-ua@w3.org>
Date: 9/2/2014 12:25 PM
> MS04 (be clear what is user interface and what is rendered content)
> We fixed our definitions, but MS04 also pointed out SC where we were not specific which applied.  I propose the following:
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> 3.2.2 Back button.  Added sentence to Intent "The Back feature is a part of the user agent user interface instead of the rendered content, however, authors should not "break" the Back button by disabling it, or creating sequences of web pages that would cause an error if the Back button were used. "
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> 3.2.3 Spell Check: User agents provide spell checking functionality for text created inside the user agent.
> Changed to: "UA user interface provides... "  [UA user interface is linked to the definition]
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> 2.2.1 Sequential Navigation Between Elements: The user can move the keyboard focus backwards and forwards through all recognized enabled elements in the current viewport. (Level A)
> Change to "...all recognized enabled elements in the rendered content of the current viewport."  [rendered content is linked to definition]
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