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Clarify that Baseline does not cover assistive technology
This adds an item to non-goals to clarify that support in assistive tools that may be used along a browser is not (yet?) covered by Baseline. See discussion in #498
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Many Baseline features will not achieve 100% user reach soon or perhaps ever.
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If a web developer needs to support a globally uncommon or discontinued browser (e.g., Internet Explorer 11), then the developer needs to know the specific limitations of that browser, not a broad overview of developers’ most commonly required browsers.
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Baseline can’t be both.
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* **Identify support in assistive technology.**
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Baseline should cover core accessibility support in browsers but it does not cover support in assistive tools (e.g., screen magnifiers, screen readers, alternative keyboards) that may be used along a browser to meet the requirements of people with disabilities.
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See also: [Future considerations](#future-considerations).
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* **Identify support in non-web environments.**
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Developers use web technologies in non-web settings, such as JavaScript in Node.js, Web APIs in Deno, or HTML and CSS in Electron-based applications.
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For good reasons, web technologies in non-web settings often depart from interoperability with web browsers.
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* Progressive enhancement safe (i.e., limited penalties for support failures)
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* Developer feedback requested
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* Buggy (e.g., supported but in ways that are surprising and semi-interoperable)
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* Buggy or unsupported in assistive tools
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* Obsolete/deprecated/legacy/etc. (i.e., flagged as such in the specification or dropped from newer versions of the specification)
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* Having high-quality polyfills available

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