Responsibilities of Key Players
•User agent vendors
–XmlHttpRequest, DHTML and JS accessibility
–UI and interaction model
•Web developers and authoring tools
–Think across various technologies involved
–UI design focus rather than code compliance focus when using standards like WCAG
–Tools need to always deliver technically accessible solutions
•AT vendors
–Update interaction models for dynamic apps rather than flat pages
•OS and application vendors
–improvements to APIs such as MSAA to allow better rich application accessibility
–e.g. Microsoft is updating MSAA for Windows Vista
•Standards bodies
–improvements to accessibility guidelines
–accessibility within technology domains
–UI paradigms for web and mobile web
•Need consistency from positive working relationships between all parties