- From: Sean Hogan <shogun70@westnet.com.au>
- Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:46:22 +1100
- To: James Craig <jcraig@apple.com>
- CC: David Bolter <david.bolter@gmail.com>, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>, Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>, "w3c-wai-pf@w3.org PF" <w3c-wai-pf@w3.org>, "www-dom@w3.org" <www-dom@w3.org>, public-hypertext-cg@w3.org
On 10/02/10 8:37 AM, James Craig wrote: > On Feb 9, 2010, at 1:03 PM, David Bolter wrote: > > >> That said, I'm not sure if this pattern is used a lot today. >> > As far as I'm aware, it's not used at all today, because there isn't a way to implement it. > > Currently IE has onpropertychange and Firefox / Opera have DOMAttrModified. Aren't they sufficient? > > On Feb 9, 2010, at 1:03 PM, David Bolter wrote: > > >> Hi Jonas, >> >> The idea is that AT can (through API) cause the modification of an attribute, and the web developer should have a standard way to tell that modification happened (without js timer/polling). For example perhaps visual focus changes (aria-activedescedant). That said, I'm not sure if this pattern is used a lot today. >> >> cheers, >> David >>
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