- 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.