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authorJames Craig <jcraig@apple.com>
Sat, 03 May 2014 19:56:38 -0700
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src/indie-ui-context.html
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 		<!-- :::::::::::::::::::: INTRO :::::::::::::::::::: -->
 		<section id="intro" class="informative">
 			<h2>Introduction</h2>
-			<p>The primary goal of IndieUI User Context is to provide authorized web applications access to information about a user's relevant settings and preferences, to provide the best possible user experience to all users. Some complex web applications can provide a much better experience if given access to information such as a user's preferred color, font, screen, and even *restricted* assistive technology settings such as a preference to render captions, or whether a screen reader is on. General web pages developed using best practices may never need access to restricted user settings, but complex web applications can utilize this information to enhance the performance and user interface.</p>
-			<p>There are obviously major privacy implications to providing any user-specific information to a third-party such as a web site, so a critical part of this specification defines how user agents and web browsers must prevent unauthorized access to user information, including methods to prevent access from parties interested in abusive uses such as user "fingerprinting" by marketers. The IndieUI Working Group members believe we've solved this problem by preventing web sites from being able to detect any difference between a user preference that is <em>Off</em>, and a user preference that is <em>On</em> but is not shared with the requesting site.</p>
+			<p>The primary goal of IndieUI User Context is to provide authorized web applications access to information about a user's relevant settings and preferences, to provide the best possible experience to all users. Some complex web applications can provide a much better experience if given access to information such as a user's preferred color, font, screen, and even *restricted* assistive technology settings such as a preference to render captions, or whether a screen reader is active. General web pages developed using best practices may never need access to restricted user settings, but complex web applications can utilize this information to enhance the performance and user interface.</p>
+			<p>There are privacy implications to providing any user-specific information to a third-party such as a web site, so a critical part of this specification defines how user agents and web browsers must prevent unauthorized access to user information, including methods to prevent access from parties interested in abusive uses such as "fingerprinting" by marketers. The IndieUI Working Group members believe we've provided a reasonable level of privacy with an API that prevents web sites from being able to detect a difference between a default setting and non-default setting that is not shared with the requesting site.</p>
 			<p>This section defines feature keys for user settings for use with the UserSettings interface. Some keys can also be accessed as Media Features using syntax defined in the CSS Media Queries specification. User Agents SHOULD implement an access control mechanism that allows users to restrict access to senesitive information requested via the <code>userSettings()</code> or <code>matchMedia()</code> methods of the Window interface, or from the @media selector in CSS.
 
 			The specification below defines feature keys for user settings that can be requested through a new extension to the Window interface. Some keys can also be accessed as new "Media Features" to detect user settings, using existing syntax defined in the CSS Media Queries specification. Because this approach relies so heavily on features that overlap with work maintained by the CSS Working Group and Web Applications Working Group, it is possible that portions or all of this specification may move under the purview these other groups. At a minimum, the IndieUI Working Group requests guidance and a collaborative working relationship with CSS and WebApps.</p>