Re: Opinions on accessible time formatting

On 8 November 2014 17:45, John Foliot <john@foliot.ca> wrote:

> Not the biggest problem to solve, but it also appears that a solution is in
> hand. So, can we get screen readers to do something useful with HTML5's
> @datetime? Who wants to file bugs?
>

I would suggest that browser bugs be filed to

1. expose the the element name as a role=time property
2. expose datetime attribute as a property in accessibility APis

this will provide a common interface for AT to access the semantics.

see Filing bugs http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/2014/06/filing-bugs/

note similar semantic information exposure has recently been implemented
for the newer HTML5 input types such as URL/email etc in Firefox and chrome.



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Regards

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