Thread Subject: Re: Keyboard operability proposal

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From: Sailesh Panchang
Date: Mon, May 14 2007 12:00 PM

Ref: "except where the underlying function requires input that depends on
the path of the user's movement and not just the endpoints."
Greg explained:
> Basically - it just removes things that you can't do from your
> keyboard anyway. (at least in any reasonable manner.

Then why not say just that:
"except where the underlying function requires input that cannot be done
from the keyboard in any reasonable manner like freehand drawing or
signing".

Sailesh Panchang
Senior Accessibility Engineer
Deque Systems Inc. (www.deque.com)
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Reston VA 20191
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