Re: Canvas shadow DOM question for interactive HTML5 elements

This is consistent with Mozilla and Microsoft. Thank you Maciej.

Rich Schwerdtfeger
Distinguished Engineer, SWG Accessibility Architect/Strategist


                                                                           
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On Jan 21, 2010, at 11:27 AM, James Craig wrote:

      I'm going to defer to Maciej on this question, since this changes the
      standard focus model.

It would not be a major problem for us to have elements in the <canvas>
subdom get focus without being rendered. It doesn't work that way today,
but I can't see any major technical obstacles. Providing a caret location
for non-rendered content may be a little trickier, but is also doable.

Regards,
Maciej



      On Jan 7, 2010, at 8:56 AM, Richard Schwerdtfeger wrote:


            Hi David, James, Frank,

            The canvas working group has reached consensus that we should
            provide a shadow DOM for <canvas> where the canvas UI is bond
            to accessible objects in the shadow DOM. Two things we need to
            agree on is being able to use standard input controls and
            contenteditable areas in the shadow DOM as will already be
            accessible in the browser. Since these interactive components
            are not visible and would be in the keyboard navigation
            sequence we need to know if this will be a problem for Firefox,
            Safari, or IE. Also, contenteditable provides a caret location,
            without which we would need to provide an API for the caret
            location to support magifiers and screen readers. We need to
            address these action items in the next 2 weeks.

            http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/HTML/track/actions/4

            http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/HTML/track/actions/5

            Rich


            Rich Schwerdtfeger
            Distinguished Engineer, SWG Accessibility Architect/Strategist