Re: February 14, 2011

On 2/13/2011 2:07 PM, Richard Schwerdtfeger wrote:
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> Agenda: February 14, 2011 Canvas Accessibility Working Group
> Time of meeting is 3:00PM EST, 20:00 UTC, duration is 1 hour
> Zakim Bridge +1.617.761.6200, conference 2119 ("A11Y")
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> IRC: server: irc.w3.org, port: 6665, channel: #html-a11y.
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> 1. Caret/Selection Position and Blink Rate.
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> Are people satisfied with the changes to the caret/selection Position 
> attached? Rich separated out definitions for caret and selection 
> position (per Benjamin's request) and made some changes to the user 
> agent caret and selection tracking. Content selection does not always 
> mean an element has to have focus - unlike the caret.
>
Seems to complicate things, but it's a positive change.

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> 2. SVG caret/selection pos. At the last call Chuck preferred to NOT 
> have caret and selection position reflect the drawing path so it was 
> not changed. Benjamin suggested that we move caret/selection position 
> to the James Craig proposal to add support for SVG but we don't know 
> what will become of that proposal. Do we stick our current proposal? 
> If so, Rich will update the change proposal and send out to group this 
> week.
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When ARIA is revisited regarding html 5, I think a role="caret" type 
will be appropriate for SVG use cases.

> 3. Chuck do you have a working modification to Chrome for focus ring 
> and caret/selection pos that we can send to AISquared for testing?
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No. I'll send up a flare when I do.

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> 4. Review outstanding bugs to re-assign and or agree on closure.
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> _http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=11238_
> _http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=11239
> __http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=11240_
> _http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=11241_
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Duplicates; Issue-131.
Addressed by setCaretSelectionRect, drawFocusRing
__ <http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=11241>
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> _http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=11242_
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Resolved. No need to restrict the subdom.
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> _http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=11328_
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Mozilla + Ian are against the use case, stating that future
versions of Canvas will automatically scale.

This can be addressed through a better CSSOM model.
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> _http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=11329_
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Seems to be a simple spec issue. No arguments, just hasn't happened.
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> _http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=11342_
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Editor is factually incorrect, as can be seen by the source code
of many CanvasRenderingContext2D implementations.
Factors are already exposed in textBaseline methods.

Received on Monday, 14 February 2011 19:00:07 UTC