Re: Please vote on the canvas accessibility proposal

That is not an RFC MUST. It also does not mean it is accessible if you are
saying the canvas can only act as a bitmap.

Rich Schwerdtfeger
Distinguished Engineer, SWG Accessibility Architect/Strategist


                                                                           
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On Wed, 24 Feb 2010, Richard Schwerdtfeger wrote:
>
> - There is nothing in HTML 5 that says you MUST produce accessible
content.

# "When authors use the canvas element, they must also provide content
# that, when presented to the user, conveys essentially the same function
# or purpose as the bitmap canvas."

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