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Re: open vs. closed products or accessibility supportedornot

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From: Tim Harshbarger
Date: Feb 23, 2011 3:18PM

The way I am reading it, if the AT doesn't pick that information up and
convey it to the user and you deem that AT necessary for a technology to
be considered accessibility supported, then that technology is not
accessibility supported. The way I am understanding accessibility
supported, it means that all the pieces need to be in place and working.

If the situation is that the AT use to work, but now has a bug that
prevents it from working, then you probably need to decide if the issue
is just temporary, long term, or permanent.

My thought is that the benefit of an inspection tool is that it lets you
know where the problem is so that you can fix it and deem the technology
accessibility supported. or that the technology is being used in a
accessibility supported manner.

At least, that is my take on it.

Thanks!
Tim