Add a11y guidance for user agents #238
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timcappalli
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May 14, 2025
| input hardware like keyboards, pointing devices, touch screens, voice | ||
| recognition, etc. Additionally, user agents SHOULD support accessible | ||
| output methods during these requests to ensure that prompts for | ||
| [=user consent=] during such requests can be meaningfully communicated to |
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We've traditionally said that the browser only handles permission, not consent.
It seems we have a mismatch on the term definition / section title and meaning. Opened an issue here: #239
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This PR adds informative guidance to user agents encouraging them to mediate presentation and issuance requests in a way that supports a wide range of accessible inputs and outputs.
The intent is to submit this content in the horizontal review request to the a11y-request repo.
Partially closes #229
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