Thread Subject: Section 31A - May 30 Draft
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From: Tom Brett
Date: Sat, Jun 02 2007 3:55 PM
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The following provision was copied from the WIKI:
Applications shall not disrupt or disable activated features of other
products that are identified as accessibility features, where those features
are developed and documented according to industry standards. Applications
also shall not disrupt or disable activated features of any operating system
that are identified as accessibility features where the application
programming interface for those accessibility features has been documented
by the manufacturer of the operating system and is available to the product
developer.
Does the first sentence of this provision mean that I cannot develop an
application that disables a key combination unique to Jaws, such as CNTL +
ALT + RIGHT ARROW? Are assistive technology software applications
considered to be an industry standard even though these AT applications are
not considered by most developers to be mainstream?
I have talked to developers who feel that they can assign a function to any
key combination as long as it does not override a windows documented
accessibility feature. If they choose to use the CNTL + ALT + RIGHT ARROW
they have removed my ability to read table data.
What is the intent of this provision?
Tom Brett
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