Back in January when I started looking into Atom and accessibility the
following exchange took place:
JS: Despite requirements for the use of atom:title, atom:summary and
atom:content, it is possible for an entry to contain zero human-readable
text
BS: there are Atom applications where entries are meant to be consumed
only by software. An annotation that indicates "this is not intended to be
read by people" would be an accessibility improvement for such documents.
Is there a use case where an end user would actually encounter such
entries? If an end user would never encounter these kinds of entries it
probably isn't useful to have the annotation. Is such content ever
transformed to a format readable by the end user? Hopefully the
transformation process would create accessible content.
Pete Brunet
IBM Accessibility Architecture and Development
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