Sorry it took so long for me to get this draft out. Too much traveling going on. Please take a look and provide feedback. The edits reflect: - Separate caret/selection from drawFocusRing http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2010Mar/0502.html. The Mac does not support caret tracking during selection so this needed to be allotted for. - Expose the caret blink rate via 2D canvas API. Frank indicated Windows has a 500 millisecond defult blink rate a. Carl Carlson (Apple) indicated a default blink rate of 560 milliseconds. I provided information for authors regarding average default blink rates should the value returned be negative 1. - Change the name of canDrawCustom and clean up its definiton which according to Maciej is "want to draw custom unless Special Focus Ring Setting is in Effect" http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2010Mar/0363.html David Bolter: From the Firefox perspective we still need to see that the caret/selection location can be properly mapped to the accessibility API as is. Currently, the caret position is a logical one in IA2 and I believe the caret pixel position is calculated from the character font offset and the bounding rectangle of the text. We may need to move the system caret. I am trying to find the old Windows API for that. Frank: Please see if we can map the pixel position accurately, when provided, from the accessibility API. Windows used to have an MSAA notification for driving a magnifier based on screen position. I don't know if this is still used when using UIA Express. Maciej or James: Same question for Mac regarding the caret/selection position. (See attached file: 2dcontext10-Apr-11.html) Rich Schwerdtfeger CTO Accessibility Software Group
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