Re: Proposal: Canvas accessibility and a media querries approach for alternative content (Action Item 6 in the HTML Accessibility Task Force)

hi henri,
i think you or I may be misunderstanding.

>The subdom isn't being rendered to the visual medium, so presumably it
doesn't have CSS boxes generated for it, so it doesn't exist in a coordinate
space >where click hit testing could be performed against boxes that
correspond to DOM nodes.

I am not talking about applying the click hit testing to the subdom, I am
talking about what happens when the click occurs
trigger a window.location thing or
pass the click to the <a> element in the subdom and let it do the navigation
event.

since one is providing the <a> anyway why would one duplicate its native
behaviour?


 thinking about this a little more...

what about the case of a canvas with a pseudo text input drawn on it,
wouldn't it make sense to let the input in the subdom deal with the
keystrokes and storage of text input?

<canvas>
<input type="text">
</canvas>

again, a keyboard user will be interacting with it, what sense is there in
saving and processing the canvas pseudo input content seperately?

regards
Stevef


2010/1/20 Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>

> On Jan 20, 2010, at 15:01, Steven Faulkner wrote:
>
> > OK, but I am trying to understand why one would do this?
> > if you include a link in the canvas sub dom so it will be accessible to
> users, why would you duplicate the functionality using script instead of
> pointing the click event on the canvas to the link?
>
> The subdom isn't being rendered to the visual medium, so presumably it
> doesn't have CSS boxes generated for it, so it doesn't exist in a coordinate
> space where click hit testing could be performed against boxes that
> correspond to DOM nodes.
>
> > in the end if a single method is suitable for all users its a win for all
> no?
>
> Yeah. I'd expect SVG+ARIA to provide that. Can't put the <canvas> cat back
> in the bag at this point, though.
>
> --
>  Henri Sivonen
> hsivonen@iki.fi
> http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
>
>
>


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with regards

Steve Faulkner
Technical Director - TPG Europe
Director - Web Accessibility Tools Consortium

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