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@@ -57,6 +57,36 @@ What is Meant By Edge?
Both of these are privileged positions providing access to much information about the user and how the user functions. While we note the need to preserve the web user's privacy here, the remainder of this document focusses on providing accessibility support and assumes privacy is preserved through mechanisms detailed in other W3C technologies.
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+ Potential for Autonomous Automation
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+ In the subsections titled “Potential for Autonomous Automation,” we pragmatically evaluate the extent to which automation, supported through AI and Machine Learning, can operate autonomously to detect, remediate, and verify without the need for human interaction for each listed capability.
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It’s crucial to understand the distinction between autonomous automation involving AI or Machine Learning that is identified here and the broader application of AI and automation as tools that assist humans in the Accessibility process, which in itself can influence the quality of any team addressing these capabilities. This subsection aims to solely focus on giving an indication of the likely potential using the following comments in that subsection.
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+In many cases - indicated that in many cases of this type of capability, Autonomous Automation could be used successfully to achieve acceptable results.
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+In some cases - indicated that in some cases, depending on the way capabilities have been implemented, Autonomous Automation could be used successfully to achieve acceptable results.
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+In no significant way - indicated that there are currently no cases of this type of capability where Autonomous Automation would generate acceptable results.
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+By grounding our discussion in this practical approach, we align with the abstract’s themes of opportunities and challenges presented by new technologies in enhancing web accessibility.
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+ The source of the typical website
+ today is actually many sources.
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+ Even bespoke web applications aren't always created by a single
+ source. Few developers exclusively use their own code. They rely on
+ libraries, components and frameworks to build their web content.
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+ Edge technologies may actually be best placed to help overcome the problem
+ of substandard accessibility in composite content delivered to end users by identifying precisely the accessibility challenges that end users may experience and helping remediate them where it matters most—at the user
+ level, for the simple reason that technology based tracking and reporting can examine far more end user payload deliveries than human testing will ever cover. In particular we consider the role played by various edge-based players beginning with the Content Delivery Network (CDN), the operating system on the user's devices, user-agent, browser extensions, assistive technologies, and/or JavaScript overlays. Whether the resulting remediation is an in-process transformation,
+ or an upstream recoding, gathering and reporting many samples to upstream end points is arguably the most efficient way to spot anomalous patterns (and a great application for A-I analysis).
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Web Content Today is Dynamic
@@ -206,7 +236,7 @@ Image Alternative Text Provisioning
Good alternative text is often essential for comprehending site content for users who cannot see, but also for users on highly restricted bandwidth as continues to exist in many regions of the world.
-Automatability
+Autonomous Automation
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Supports comprehension for users who require the enhanced support in a manner that does not interfere with the fundamental functionality of the content.
-Automatability
+Autonomous Automation
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@@ -293,7 +323,7 @@ Video Captioning
The cost of generating captions is prohibitive, and automation with human editing is almost universally relied upon.
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Supports comprehension for users who require the enhanced support in a manner that does not interfere with the fundamental functionality of the content. This is yet another instance supporting Configure Once, Use Everywhere
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@@ -375,7 +405,7 @@ Read Content Aloud
Only edge technology is capable of performing this accommodation across all sites a user accesses.
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+Autonomous Automation
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@@ -431,7 +461,7 @@ Optimize Cursor Size
An accessible overlay can provide this functionality across all sites the user accesses. And, when provided via the login-based cloud service, it can do so across the full portfolio of the user's devices.
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Only edge technology is capable of performing this accommodation across all sites a user accesses.
-Automatability
+Autonomous Automation
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@@ -501,7 +531,7 @@ Optimize Hyperlink Visibility
-Automatability
+Autonomous Automation
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@@ -544,7 +574,7 @@ Provide Accessible Fonts
Only edge technology is capable of performing this accommodation across all sites a user accesses.
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browsers, operating systems and/or devices, to manage the complete experience
including injected and/or dynamic content.
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browsers, operating systems and/or devices, to manage the complete experience
including injected and/or dynamic content.
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+Autonomous Automation
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Only edge technology is capable of performing this accommodation across all sites a user accesses.
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+Autonomous Automation
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@@ -720,7 +750,7 @@ Text Alignment (Justification) Personalization
Only edge technology is capable of performing this accommodation across all sites a user accesses.
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+Autonomous Automation
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@@ -759,7 +789,7 @@ Optimize Color Contrast
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+Autonomous Automation
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@@ -788,7 +818,7 @@ Animation Control
An accessible overlay can provide this functionality across all sites the user accesses. And, when provided via the login-based cloud service, it can do so across the full portfolio of the user's devices.
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An accessible overlay can provide this functionality across all sites the user accesses. And, when provided via the login-based cloud service, it can do so across the full portfolio of the user's devices.
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The benefit available only from edge-based transformations is that they can be applied to every site the user visits to achieve consistent results.
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An edge technology can bring consistency and predictability to the user experience across whatever sites the user may access by locating similar controls similarly.
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Some users rely on keyboard navigation alone, such as those with motor disabilities or certain types of visual impairments. Semantic navigation options provide a convenient way for keyboard users to move through the content without having to rely on mouse-based interactions, making the website more accessible and usable for them.
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Automatability
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The benefit available only from edge-based transformations is that they can be applied to every site the user visits to achieve consistent results when nuanced results are required.
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Well built edge technologies can introduce missing programmatic associations. Advanced strategies to sequence completion of complex forms for persons who are easily overwhelmed by on screen complexity are frustrated when these programmatic associations are missing. Furthermore, they are the only technologies that can bring consistent organization to a form.
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Supports more efficient interaction with forms for users who require the enhanced support. Makes completing forms much easier to accomplish.
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@@ -1114,7 +1144,7 @@ Interactive Elements Status Clarification
Supports more efficient interaction with content for users who require the enhanced support.
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Supports more efficient interaction with content for users who require the enhanced support.
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+Autonomous Automation
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@@ -1179,7 +1209,7 @@ Ambiguous Link Notification
Supports more efficient interaction with content for users who require the enhanced support.
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Client-Side Interactions
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+ ensure keyboard access to interactive elements
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+ Mmanage focus through interactive processes
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+ handle dynamic pages
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Managing Time Outs
Managing Time Outs
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+ Custom components
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+ correct semantic behavior
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+ apply or adjust ARIA elements
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+ replace component when needed with an accessible version
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The right information at just the right time can serve as a tremendous quality of life enhancement and it's best performed locally, not centrally.
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Benefit
Like any complex topic, organizations are wide to hire experts and give them the latitude to fix things. Since providing access to digital assets at source is a security risk, allowing the accessibility provider to fix things at the edge is a sound decision.
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Benefit
Given the bewildering range of possible experiences with all these third party plugins operating, the edge becomes the only place where a proper validation can occur.
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Benefit
Sampling and monitoring the accessibility of the user experience can only occur at the moment of user access because only the edge knows for sure. Much as a thermostat should be positioned far from the heat source, to measure the temperature of the room, monitoring at the edge is the only way to determine what is happening there.
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Pages whose content remains unremediated can also tend to encourage users to seek alternative providers.
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It looms ever larger as it stacks, and automated detection is often the first step in a chain of capabilities.
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The user always benefits when best available remediation approaches are employed. Nor will the user ever care where and how the remediation is accomplished as long as it facilitates the user' s ability to function.
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@@ -1557,7 +1623,7 @@ Accessibility Editing, By 3rd Party
Accessibility edits are provided to the content publisher much like pull requests in version control systems.
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This is yet another instance supporting Configure Once, Use Everywhere
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To the extent that locale specific data may be helpful to users, edge technology may be the best means of providing the most timely locale-specific accessibility information.
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Such a form requires the source provider to think through who should receive and process these reports. Most particularly, they will need to consider what accessibility expertise is available to evaluate and follow-up on such reports.
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While this capability remains aspirational in the main as of this writing, it is nevertheless an achievable goal for which edge technology is optimally suited. Many other capabilities enumerated in this document will point to this capability as an optimal implementation objective.
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Only edge technology is capable of performing this accommodation across all sites a user accesses.
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Only edge technology is capable of performing this accommodation across all sites a user accesses.
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Only edge technology is capable of performing this accommodation across all sites a user accesses.
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@@ -1876,7 +1942,7 @@ Support Command Normalization
Only edge technology is capable of performing this accommodation across all sites a user accesses.
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Only edge technology is capable of performing this accommodation across all sites a user accesses.
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Only edge technology is capable of performing this accommodation across all sites a user accesses.
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Benefit
Users can select and optimally tune the types of accommodations that they require. Any device on the edge may also have knowledge of other devices on the edge, that may need the same adjustments, and edge technology could propagate these settings to those other devices. MacOS Ventura (MacOS 13.2) is already doing this for Wi-Fi passwords when an IOS device configured for the same network is proximate.
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