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From: David Poehlman
Date: Sat, Jan 20 2007 3:40 AM
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Greg,
If my app does not need to be used with a screen reader because it
has one in it, why would it need to be compatible with a screen
reader? Does this fail the Mac because it's not compatible with JAWS?
On Jan 11, 2007, at 2:19 AM, Gregg Vanderheiden wrote:
I also have trouble with the fact that the line is not bright as we
would like.
But the problem with not requiring this is that one could have a self
voicing application that is not screen reader compatible and it would
be called accessible. I think that that might be a big problem.
In the past we did this by requiring AT compatibility for
software. But as we move forward with software being generalized,
this old approach starts to fail. We need to think about how we are
going to deal with this situation. Doing it the way we did – isn't
working as we move forward.
We need to look at this carefully to be sure that we don't avoid one
problem and create a greater one.
Gregg
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Subject: Re: [teitac-general] [teitac-websoftware] General Issues:
Speechinterfaces and equivalent facilitation
I agree with Audrey's concerns about defining situations where
"productivity" is required, given that the same products
may be used in different contexts, not to mention the difficulty of
defining the threshold level of productivity.
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