Re: FW: ACTION-133: Develop an accessibility API and model for canvas as well as attributes to specify alternative content

My apologies, in my haste I forgot to adjust the attributions. The text 
attributed to Paul below was written by Richard Schwerdtfeger.

On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, Ian Hickson wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, Paul Cotton wrote:
> > 
> > At this point the canvas working group is in agreement that we need a 
> > shadow DOM with support for ARIA semantics. We have some test samples 
> > and we need to get browser support to expose the shadow DOM to the 
> > accessibility API.
> 
> Can you clarify if you are using the term "shadow DOM" as defined by SVG, 
> as defined by XBL, or in some new sense? I don't really understand what 
> the difference is between the agreement referenced above and what the spec 
> already requires.

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