For Review: Natural Language Interface Accessibility User Requirements - First Public Working Draft from Shawn Henry on 2021-11-03 (public-wai-announce@w3.org from October to December 2021)

For Review: Natural Language Interface Accessibility User Requirements - First Public Working Draft

Dear WAI Interest Group,

W3C WAI invites you to comment on the First Public Working Draft of the Note:
 Natural Language Interface Accessibility User Requirements
 https://www.w3.org/TR/naur

This document outlines accessibility user needs, requirements, and scenarios for natural language interfaces. A natural language interface is a user interface in which the user and the system communicate via a natural (human) language. The user provides input as sentences via speech or other input, and the system generates responses as sentences delivered by speech, text, or another modality.

Often systems that provide natural language interfaces support spoken interaction. However, speech is not essential to a natural language interface.

Examples of natural language interfaces include:
* Voice agents designed primarily to communicate via speech.
* Chat bots included in web applications that process natural language requests from the user.
* Interactive Voice Response (IVR) systems that interact with the user via a telephone call, accepting speech or key pad input and generating speech output.

Some more context is provided in the blog post at:
      https://www.w3.org/blog/2021/10/natural-language-interface-accessibility-user-requirements-call-for-review/

For in-progress updates to the document, see the Editors' Draft at:
      https://w3c.github.io/apa/naur/

To comment, please open a new issue in the APA GitHub repository:
      https://github.com/w3c/apa/issues/new
Please add the label NAUR. Create separate GitHub issues for each topic, rather than commenting on multiple topics in a single issue.
If it’s not feasible for you to use GitHub, send comments in e-mail to:
      public-apa@w3.org

Please send comments by *14 December 2021*.

Thank you in advance for your comments.

Regards,
Janina Sajka, APA Working Group Co-Chair
Becky Gibson, APA Working Group Co-Chair
Jason White, Research Questions Task Force Facilitator
Scott Hollier, Research Questions Task Force Facilitator
Joshue O'Connor, W3C Emerging Web Technology Specialist
Michael Cooper, W3C Staff Contact for APA Working Group

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