Browser/AT meta-UI interaction model
Cont…
•For web sites – collections of pages
–Today’s browsers provide good flat UIs
•If AJAX is about web apps – richer – not flat pages?
–Browsers need to “deliver” the interface more like an OS does
–Not flat, not “page based” and not without a cursor
–Need to use a more dynamic interaction model on a fundamental level
–Need to really be “apps” not “documents”
•e.g. like JAVA, GUIs from wxWidgets, like a desktop in VNC
•If this occurs, even more important that AT moves ahead to embrace this paradigm
•GUI apps work differently to browser content but the line between them is fading
•Other responsibilities – Who is responsible for what?
–Much the same story as with standard web accessibility