Re: api to indicate where an AT user is operating

Okay that helps my understanding, thanks. I think I agree with Trevor's
earlier response. Thoughts?

Cheers,
David

On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 5:02 PM, Matthew King <[email protected]> wrote:

> David, the simplest example is giving a screen reader the ability to
> visually indicate where the screen reader is reading.
> There are a wide variety of use cases for such functionality.
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> Matt King
> IBM Senior Technical Staff Member
> I/T Chief Accessibility Strategist
> IBM BT/CIO - Global Workforce and Web Process Enablement
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> Richard Schwerdtfeger/Austin/IBM
> 01/16/2012 01:09 PM
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> david bolter <[email protected]>
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> It was requested that the browser show a physical rendering of the user's
> location. Nothing to do with hardware.
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> Rich Schwerdtfeger
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> From:   david bolter <[email protected]>
> To:     Richard Schwerdtfeger/Austin/IBM@IBMUS,
> Cc:     [email protected], Matthew
> King/Fishkill/IBM@IBMUS
> Date:   01/16/2012 02:50 PM
> Subject:        Re: api to indicate where an AT user is operating
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> Is the concern that browsers are using hardware acceleration, and/or APIs
> that don't allow screen readers to hook in at a low level?
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> It would be hard to maintain and support modes that are not progressive.
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> Cheers,
> David
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> On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Richard Schwerdtfeger <[email protected]>
> wrote:
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> I was on a call today with an ATV and it was requested whether if there
> would be support for an accessibility API That would allow an assistive
> technology to tell an application, such as a browser, to render on the
> display where the AT User was operating such as in the case of their
> operating the virtual buffer.  Typically, browser manufacturers do not
> want
> in assistive technology having control over what might be rendered in the
> browser so  I don't know whether this will garner a positive response.
> That
> said, I agree to post the request to this discussion. I look forward to
> your response.
>
> thanks,
> Rich
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> Rich Schwerdtfeger
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