Open A11y.org (The Linux Foundations' Accessibility Working Group

Expert Handlers: A New Initiative

http://a11y.org/handlers

  • Generalized content markup (such as HTML) is complimented by markup specifications that facilitate more semantically precise content markup. Examples include MathML and MusicXML.
  • AT typically handles generalized content markup, but does not know how to handle specialized markup. Thus, users of AT are unable to access or navigate specialized markup effectively, if at all.
  • The Open A11y Expert Handlers group is exploring a standardized plug-in mechanism for AT software to allow the expert software to provide enhanced, semantically rich access to specialized markup.
    • Unified Use Cases for Expert Handlers, version 1.0 (UUC1)
      http://a11y.org/uuc

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