Re: Example canvas element use - accessibility concerns

you're right about that, voiceover gives me gibberish for the ascii  
art is this what you mean?

On Feb 23, 2009, at 1:48 PM, David Singer wrote:

There's something I meant to say about using canvas to write a text  
editor:  it's kinda  tour-de-force, and a nice example, but I don't  
think anyone would claim it was a good way, or a natural, or right,  
way to do it.

It is roughly as appropriate as doing 'line printer art'.  I rather  
assume a screen-reader would not give a, well, recognizable,  
description of this page:
<http://local.wasp.uwa.edu.au/~pbourke/dataformats/asciiart/>
which uses text to represent grey-scale pictures.
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David Singer
Multimedia Standards, Apple Inc.