Thread Subject: Re: FPC - USERS' AT

From: Gregg Vanderheiden
Date: Mon, Jun 04 2007 10:40 AM

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Absolutely.

But if we do we also reduce the number of people who can access to less than
10%.

So both solutions are not acceptable. We are put in a really &^#@$%&
situation here.


Gregg
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Gregg C Vanderheiden Ph.D.



> -----Original Message-----
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> Peter Korn
> Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 11:22 AM
> To: TEITAC General Interface Accessibility Subcommittee
> Subject: Re: [teitac-general] FPC - USERS' AT
>
> Hi Gregg,
>
> > Which users' AT?
> >
> > If "users' AT" means ALL users' AT it sets unreasonable
> limitations on
> > technologies that can be used.
> >
> > If "users' AT" means only the best AT out there it
> unreasonably limits
> > access to government information to just the small
> percentage with the
> > best AT.
> >
>
> One real problem - if we restrict what can be deployed to the
> public to something other than what the latest AT supports
> (let us presume to pick a number, only those features that is
> support by AT that has been in on the market for 1 year),
> then we remove a major incentive for AT vendors to support
> new technologies, approaches, etc.
>
> The AT industry has historically trailed new technology -
> typically supporting Web techniques and applications only
> when a critical mass / large enough market share has
> developed. There are a variety of reasons for this -
> including how hard it is to develop AT in a world without
> good support for AT-IT interoperability. Nonetheless, it is a
> market reality today.
>
> There is a real danger that we will hinder the development
> and deployment of new and accessible techniques if use any
> test that requires compatibility with AT deployed in the field.
>
> The situation we have today isn't great either - the
> proliferation of inaccessible techniques (e.g. AJAX without
> support for WAI ARIA) and the lag we have today in making
> them accessible. Frankly the only way I see to address this
> is to push new development as much as possible to develop and
> use accessibility services for AT-IT interoperability (as we
> are doing in our drafts).
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Peter Korn
> Accessibility Architect,
> Sun Microsystems, Inc.
>

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