ISSUE-43
don\'t disable assistive technology (public comment)
- State:
- CLOSED
- Product:
- wsc-usecases
- Raised by:
- Bill Doyle
- Opened on:
- 2007-04-15
- Description:
- From public comments
raised by: Al Gilman Alfred.S.Gilman@ieee.org
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-usable-
authentication/2007Apr/0000.html
don\'t disable assistive technology
where it says, in 4.2 User agents
Use cases considered by this Working Group must involve a web user
agent, operated by a human user.
where it says, in 5.3 Security context information for consumption by
automated agent
The Working Group will only consider Web interactions that include a human
user. Situations in which all security relevant information is consumed and
acted upon my automated agents are out of scope.
you must change
The latter statement is incompatible with standard accessibility requirements,
in particularly the W3C Recommendation on User Agent Accessibility
Guidelines. Please review UAAG 1.0, Guideline 6. On the client side the user
must have the option to employ automated assistance that accesses either the
W3C DOM or a platform-defined accessibility API. The machinability of the
security information (information characterizing the security aspect of the
user\'s current browse context) is a matter of importance to people with
disabilities, and must not be neglected.
where it says, in 4.4 Third-party recommendation
The recommendations of certificate authorities,
visited web sites or reputation services integrated into the user
agent are in scope for this Working Group.
please consider
The architecture needs to support reputation services integrated with the AT
as well as integrated with the base browser.
Why?
People with disabilities who use heavy-duty Assistive Technology such as a
screen reader, voice command software, or on-screen-keyboard for switch input
management, will find the Assistive Technology a more natural bundle host for
recommendation-service access funtions, as opposed to the base browser.
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- Related emails:
- RE: ISSUE-43: don\\\'t disable assistive technology (public comment) (from tyler.close@hp.com on 2007-05-21)
- ISSUE-43: don\\\'t disable assistive technology (public comment) (from Mary_Ellen_Zurko@notesdev.ibm.com on 2007-05-18)
- Re: ISSUE-43: don\\\'t disable assistive technology (public comment) (from Mary_Ellen_Zurko@notesdev.ibm.com on 2007-04-18)
- ISSUE-43: don\\\'t disable assistive technology (public comment) (from dean+cgi@w3.org on 2007-04-15)
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