Re: Comment on XML 2 Events

Hi Mark,

Not the same. purpose is just the description. When providing the
information to an assistive technology we can enumerate the named actions.

Rich


Rich Schwerdtfeger
Distinguished Engineer, SWG Accessibility Architect/Strategist
Chair, IBM Accessibility Architecture Review  Board
blog: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/schwer


                                                                           
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Hi Rich,

Are you sure it wasn't consciously dropped in favour of @role? It's
the kind of thing we'd do. :)

Regards,

Mark

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On 9 Nov 2007, at 20:32, Richard Schwerdtfeger wrote:

> The <purpose> element was dropped from actions in the XML Events 2
> specification. If you recall we had a purpose element as a child of
> the old handler element which is now called <action>. We need
> purpose to be a child of this.
>
> <purpose> would contain text describing the purpose of the action
> which could be supported by a platform accessibility api to list
> the actions that can beformed on a document object.
>
> I would request that this be added.
>
> Rich
>
> Rich Schwerdtfeger
> Distinguished Engineer, SWG Accessibility Architect/Strategist
> Chair, IBM Accessibility Architecture Review Board
> blog: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/schwer
>