- From: Richard Schwerdtfeger <schwer@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 16:33:24 -0600
- To: Eric Carlson <eric.carlson@apple.com>
- Cc: James Craig <jcraig@apple.com>, HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>, public-html-a11y-request@w3.org, Frank Olivier <franko@microsoft.com>, david.bolter@gmail.com, "public-canvas-api@w3.org" <public-canvas-api@w3.org>, surkov.alexander@gmail.com
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Hi Eric and James,
It would be good to have either you or James on the canvas api call Monday.
I have some questions/comments:
1. The reason I chose only an x, y position is we felt the rectangle could
be determined from the associated object. That said, I can see why a
polygon would be more powerful.
Frank, David, Alex, Are you on board with supporting a polygon? Essentially
I would supply a collection of vertices for which would cover the polyline.
We would then need to convert that to the objects bounding rectangle in the
accessibility API.
2. Caret position - This is solely for magnifier tracking. So, ...
- You only need to follow the last point of regard position. You can't have
a magnifier magnify in two places. So, why do want to specify ranges. I
think this unnecessarily complicates the problem.
- Why does it matter what type of cursor is drawn? Were you looking for
some additional functionality to drive a screen reader? This would be a new
requirement. Also, we are not asking the system to draw cursor and the
canvas 2D context API does not have an API for configuring the cursor which
leads me to believe this is handled outside the canvas API and can be
processed by normal accessibility API mapping by the browser. I would want
to hear from Microsoft to see if this is something that they also want this
for Windows. Mac and Windows are different and I am not sure we can get a
matching set of system caret/selection types. I am thinking we could do
without this functionality.
Also, please be sure to copy the canvas API list on this topic as well.
Thank you for the feedback,
Rich
Rich Schwerdtfeger
CTO Accessibility Software Group
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From: James Craig <jcraig@apple.com>
Date: May 20, 2010 3:31:44 PM PDT
To: Richard Schwerdtfeger <schwer@us.ibm.com>
Cc: public-canvas-api@w3.org, public-html-a11y@w3.org
Subject: Re: Draft Revisions to Canvas 2D Context API to drive
magnification
There is a way for Zoom to follow focus/caret position that could be
implemented for this proposal. We're looking into how much effort this
would involve for WebKit, but I don't have anything to report on that now.
Initial feedback for the proposed methods:
1. The focus ring should be a set of coordinates or a shape rather than a
single xy coordinate. At a minimum, it should be rect(x1, y1, x2, y2), but
it'd be better to use a standard shape as the parameter, e.g. line,
rectangle, ellipse, or polygon... Poly would allow not only non-standard
shapes, but would also provide an easy way to implement focus rings for UI
elements that appear skewed or rotated.
2. Caret position should likewise have more than one coordinate or shape
(s), especially since I assume this is intended to work for both selection
ranges as well as unselected caret position. Perhaps a some optional
parameters such as cursor type (I-beam, block, etc.), orientation
(vertical, horizontal LTR, horizontal RTL), and maybe language/locale (Are
there any language- or locale-specific cursors? I don't know.)
On Apr 29, 2010, at 2:25 PM, Richard Schwerdtfeger wrote:
Hi Maciej,
I have not heard back from Apple on this proposal. Please take a look
at the proposal (attached HTML file) and let me know if this will
work for the Mac. I think I addressed your issues and would like your
feedback.
We have an MSAA API call on Windows which we can call to set the
Caret Position so that a magnifier can can follow it which can be
used by IE and FF.
I don't know if you have a similar API for the Mac where the
selection position could drive the magnifier.
Thanks,
Rich
Rich Schwerdtfeger
CTO Accessibility Software Group
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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)
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CTO Accessibility Software Group(See attached file:
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