- From: David Bolter <david.bolter@utoronto.ca>
- Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 14:56:10 -0400
- To: Al Gilman <Alfred.S.Gilman@IEEE.org>
- CC: wai-xtech@w3.org
Hi Al, Can you give examples of 'author' and 'player' with respect to your statement: "What do people think of this allocation of responsibility between the author and the player?" cheers, David Al Gilman wrote: > > > In all this discussion, I am assuming one thing. I think that PFWG is > also > assuming this. This post exposes this assumption to see if others think > it is sound. > > This is that labels that appear in the context of (up the ancestor > chain from) a current node in the tree (focus point or reading point) > are actually used in assistive presentation as relevant to answering > the two cardinal accessibility questions: > > a) Where am I? > b) What is _there_? > > The idea is that the processor with hands on of the final user experience > will either a) announce context as the user exercises navigation other > than "just play it" reading, or at least b) the user can at any time > query > the UI and get the context info, as with the 'q' command in Fire Vox. > > My impression is that such queries are not unique to Fire Vox but a > reasonably > common practice in screen readers. Could it be they are sometimes called > 'inspect'? > > What do people think of this allocation of responsibility between the > author > and the player? > > Al >
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