[aapi] UAIG guidance for ATs?

Note the following post in the ARIA semantics for secondary navigation
thread which suggests that the UAIG needs to provide guidance to AT
developers.

I know ATs are technically considered user agents but currently there is no
guidance whatsoever for AT developers in the UAIG. Is this part of our
charter? If so, seems like need to recruit some AT developers.

Andi



                                                                           
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There is a lot of work to do for implementation of landmark roles in
assistive technology.

The expected behavior needs to be defined in the implementation guide or
some other resource, otherwise AT developers will have to make it up on
there own and that will lead to interoperability issues.

The landmark example I created is based on the markup PF working group
suggested.

Jon



---- Original message ----
>Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 10:41:05 -0400
>From: "Becky Gibson" <Becky_Gibson@notesdev.ibm.com>
>Subject: RE: ARIA semantics for secondary navigation
>To: wai-xtech@w3.org
>
>   I tried the test page Jon referred to in his post.   Currently it does
not work with JAWS
>   10 in Firefox 3.0.10 but it does work with a daily Firefox 3.5 build.
However, JAWS does
>   not include any of the labelled by information in the landmarks dialog
nor does it speak
>   the labelledby information if I navigate from landmark to landmark.  Is
this something we
>   expect the screen reader and/or  browser to implement?
>
>   thanks,
>   -becky
>
>   >Screen reader users do not necessarily want to know the visual
position of a navigation
>   bars, they want to know what the relationship >is between the links in
a navigation bar.
>   >
>   >This can be done using the ARIA-LABEL and ARIA-LABELLEDBY links, see
example:
>   >
>   >http://test.cita.illinois.edu/aria/nav/nav1.html
>   >
>   >Jon
>
>   Becky Gibson
>   Web Accessibility Architect
>
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