Re: Integration of HTM

I vote for ADom == 
Accessibility DOM.

Jonas Sicking writes:
 > Sorry to bring this up again, but can we please please please use a
 > different term than "shadow DOM". "Shadow DOM" is already used for a
 > very different thing in XBL2, and I'm worried about confusion.
 > 
 > Several other terms have been suggested, such as "Fallback DOM", "DOM
 > inside <canvas>", "Accessibility DOM", "Accessibility tree", "fallback
 > tree".
 > 
 > I think this would be beneficial for both XBL2 and for the
 > accessibility discussions not to have these things confused.
 > 
 > Best Regards,
 > Jonas Sicking
 > Mozilla
 > 
 > On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Richard Schwerdtfeger <schwer@us.ibm.com> wrote:
 > > Ian, others,
 > >
 > > We are working on canvas accessibility for the shadow DOM and I am working
 > > with the Mozilla team on the shadow DOM approach with some sample code from
 > > Microsoft.
 > >
 > > As we discussed, the use of media query of alternative content I am working
 > > to pull over a standard set of attributes from the IMS Access For All
 > > specification. It was suggested that we preface these with an aria-, however
 > > these are not part of the aria specification and preceding these with an
 > > aria- dash would not give credit to the IMS Access For All effort.
 > >
 > > I raised the suggestion that these be preceded with afa- but we agreed this
 > > would require agreement from the working group.
 > >
 > > For example, one attribute would be AdaptationType and we would define an
 > > equivalent CSS Media query property for it.
 > >
 > > What's the group on using afa- to preamble each attribute name? ... or
 > > should we just include the attributes without the afa-?
 > >
 > > As was requested they would not be limited to canvas content selection and
 > > at the moment I see no naming conflicts with existing HTML 5 attributes.
 > >
 > > Rich
 > >
 > >
 > > Rich Schwerdtfeger
 > > Distinguished Engineer, SWG Accessibility Architect/Strategist

Received on Thursday, 4 February 2010 00:22:45 UTC