Re: Proposal: move accessibility implementation requirements from HTML to HTML acc mappings spec

Hi Maciej,

thanks for your input.

Moving all accessibility requirements to a separate spec
>

This is not about moving all accessibility requirements to a seperate spec,
its about moving those aspects (the mapping of HTML features to
accessibility APIs currently in [1]) which are currently woefully under
specified in the HTML spec.

An alternative approach would be to include all the current and planned
content contained in [2] into the HTML spec.


Which approach do you think is better? is there another way?

[1] http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/dom.html#wai-aria
[2] http://rawgit.com/w3c/aria/master/html-aam/html-aam.html

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Regards

SteveF
HTML 5.1 <http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/>

On 16 September 2014 08:59, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com> wrote:

>
> (speaking strictly as a developer)
>
> Moving all accessibility requirements to a separate spec is likely to
> encourage thinking of accessibility is an optional add-on rather than a
> core feature. In many cases, accessibility properties of the spec are
> closely tied with aspects that are not specifically about accessibility. To
> draw a comparison, consider the idea moving all security requirements out
> of the HTML spec and into a separate spec edited by security experts. It
> would promote the notion that security can be added onto new features after
> the fact, rather than designed in from the start. In many cases, that leads
> to bad security. I believe the same is true of accessibility - it’s more
> likely to be effective when designed in.
>
> For this reason, I am not in favor of the proposal below.
>
> Regards,
> Maciej
>
>
> On Sep 1, 2014, at 6:23 AM, Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Currently W3C HTML defines a set of browser implementation requirements in
> section 3.2.7 WAI-ARIA [1]. These are an incomplete subset of the
> requirements needed to provide interoperable implementations of HTML
> features to accessibility APIs.
>
> The HTML wg/PF is working on the HTML Accessibility API Mappings 1.1
> specification [2] which is intended to define the mappings of HTML features
> to platform accessibility APIs in sufficient detail for implementation of
> all HTML features to be  interoperable.
>
> I propose that the current implementation requirements in the HTML spec be
> removed and that the HTML Accessibility API Mappings 1.1 specification is
> referenced instead.
>
> Note: This does not effect the author conformance requirements in section
> 3.2.7.
>
>
>
>
> [1] http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/dom.html#wai-aria
> [2] http://rawgit.com/w3c/aria/master/html-aam/html-aam.html
>
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>
> Regards
>
> SteveF
> HTML 5.1 <http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/>
>
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