Re: Request input on the potential usefulness of HTML to Platform Accessibility APIs Implementation Guide

Hi Dave, thanks for your feedback,

just to be clear, this your view as an user agent implementor (mozilla)
right?

regards
Steve

On 17 January 2011 15:21, David Bolter <dbolter@mozilla.com> wrote:

>  The guide is necessary to providing interoperable accessibility API
> support (in the browser) for desktop accessibility clients such as screen
> readers. Note I don't care where the guide sits as long as we have it and
> more than one browser vendor agrees to seriously use it.
>
> Cheers,
> David
>
>
> On 15/01/11 10:41 AM, Steve Faulkner wrote:
>
> A number of people including myself , Cynthia Shelly, Dave Bolter and Rich
> have started working on HTML to Platform Accessibility APIs Implementation
> Guide <http://dev.w3.org/html5/html-api-map/overview.html>. It is
> currently intended as a informative reference produced by the W3C HTML WG.
>
>
>
>  The editor of the HTML5 specification has provided some feedback [1] on
> this document.
>
>
>  I would appreciate some feedback from involved in the accessibility
> implementation space in regards to the usefulness of documenting the mapping
> between HTML elements and attributes and the roles states and properties in
> the various platform accessibility APIs. And what sort of information should
> be provided, if any.
>
>  If as the HTML5 editor states;
>
>  "the proposed document is unnecessary. Vendors have not shown an
> inability to read the existing normative specifications"
>
>  then it would be good to know that is not needed and will not be useful
> to its target audience, so those involved can use their time on more
> productive pursuits.
>
>
>  [1]
> http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Objections_against_CP_for_ISSUE-129#The_HTML_to_Platform_Accessibility_APIs_Implementation_Guide
>
> --
> with regards
>
> Steve Faulkner
> Technical Director - TPG
>
> www.paciellogroup.com | www.HTML5accessibility.com |
> www.twitter.com/stevefaulkner
> HTML5: Techniques for providing useful text alternatives -
> dev.w3.org/html5/alt-techniques/
> Web Accessibility Toolbar -
> www.paciellogroup.com/resources/wat-ie-about.html
>
>
>
>


-- 
with regards

Steve Faulkner
Technical Director - TPG

www.paciellogroup.com | www.HTML5accessibility.com |
www.twitter.com/stevefaulkner
HTML5: Techniques for providing useful text alternatives -
dev.w3.org/html5/alt-techniques/
Web Accessibility Toolbar - www.paciellogroup.com/resources/wat-ie-about.html

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