- From: Al Gilman <asgilman@iamdigex.net>
- Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 22:59:27 -0400
- To: www-mobile@w3.org
- Message-Id: <p05200f00bac275e5d5ab@[128.150.143.192]>
Reference: http://www.w3.org/TR/CCPP-struct-vocab/ Please accept the following comment from the Protocols and Formats Working Group <http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/> One of the use cases for CC/PP is due to "accessibility" - people who need some special set of behaviour from their technology, for example restrictin the number of colours used because they have colour vision deficit (this is actually pretty common both in classic red-green colour blindness and for older people who may lose the ability to detect certain colours, but there are other examples to do with disabilities like blindness, deafness, motor control, etc...). One approach that is used by such people is to have some assistve technology working on top of their browser. This is normally transparent to the browser itself. Another possibility is that they simply won't see content that relies on greater colour perception than they have. In each case, there may be an available form of the content which is appropriate for their needs, but the specification of a browser profile will not take this into account. It seems that a solution is available (@@see the work that Carlos has done) by setting up a proxy service on the user's machine which intercepts traffic - for eample adding some more CC/PP information to HTTP GET requests to cover the particular needs of the user.
Received on Wednesday, 16 April 2003 09:35:09 UTC