Re: Integration of HTM

On Feb 4, 2010, at 8:50 AM, Richard Schwerdtfeger wrote:

> Anne,
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> Seeing as you don't think people to need to hire consultants, I need you to make this directly accessible to a person with:
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> - a cognitive impairment
> - a person with dyslexia
> - a user with RP
> - a mobility impaired user
> 
> http://www.nysubway.com/map/
> 
> Please enlighten us. 
> 
The map at that link does not use <canvas>. There are definitely challenges of making interactive map content accessible to a wide range of audiences. But this example shows that the mechanisms we invent for this should *not* be specific to <canvas>. They need to be approaches that work for all HTML.

Regards,
Maciej

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> Rich
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> Rich Schwerdtfeger
> Distinguished Engineer, SWG Accessibility Architect/Strategist
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> <graycol.gif>"Anne van Kesteren" ---02/04/2010 03:35:51 AM---On Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:49:56 +0100, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote:
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> "Anne van Kesteren" <annevk@opera.com>
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> On Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:49:56 +0100, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote:
> > On Wed, 3 Feb 2010, Richard Schwerdtfeger wrote:
> >> We are calling it the accessible DOM for canvas. It starts and ends with
> >> the <accessible></accessible> tags and it is not visually rendered.
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> > I really don't think this is a good idea, as explained in the following
> > e-mails:
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> >    http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2010Jan/0488.html
> >    http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2010Jan/1151.html
> >    http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2010Jan/0931.html
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> > I do not think it is necessary to have multiple inline alternatives for
> > <canvas>, nor do I think it is necessary for widgets that represent the
> > graphically-rendered widgets on a <canvas> to be marked up separately  
> > from an inline alternative representation. The existing features of HTML
> > already allow us to have multiple alternatives. Adding more features for
> > this is IMHO a mistake.
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> I wholeheartedly agree. Making accessibility into something that only  
> consultants can do correctly would be a huge step backwards.
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> -- 
> Anne van Kesteren
> http://annevankesteren.nl/
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