- From: Alexander Surkov <surkov.alexander@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 11:17:14 +0900
- To: Jason Kiss <jason@accessibleculture.org>
- Cc: wai-xtech@w3.org, Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>, Cynthia Shelly <cyns@microsoft.com>, Larry Weiss <lweiss@microsoft.com>, Char James-Tanny <charjt@helpstuff.com>, David Bolter <david.bolter@gmail.com>
Hi, Jason. It sounds very reasonable but it's not clear about "MSAA + IA2 + UIA" browsers. It can be addressed later though when we get these browsers on the market. Thank you. Alex. On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 10:49 AM, Jason Kiss <jason@accessibleculture.org> wrote: > The HTML to Platform Accessibility APIs Implementation Guide [1] > currently includes mappings for MSAA. Given the somewhat legacy status > of that API, we would like to remove the separate MSAA mappings, and > instead provide mappings as has been done with the ARIA User Agent > Implementation Guide [2]. That is, we would note instead mappings for > "MSAA + UIA Express" and "MSAA + IAccessible2". > > We would additionally add a section about other accessibility > implementations. For instance, this section would include an updated > version of the current note about Firefox and Chrome's use of MSAA > VARIANT [3] to read as follows: > > "In MSAA, the VARIANT returned by the IAccessible::get_accRole method > is limited to a finite number of integer role constants insufficient > for describing every HTML element, especially new elements introduced > by HTML5. To address this limitation, some user agents, e.g., Firefox > and Chrome in cooperation with some screen readers, have elected to > expose new roles by returning a string value in that VARIANT in a way > that is not described by the MSAA specification." > > Are there any concerns with the above approach? > > Alex, does the above change to the note about FF and Chrome address > the concerns you had with it [4]? > > Thanks, > > Jason > > > [1] http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/html-api-map/raw-file/tip/Overview.html > > [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-implementation/#mapping_role_table > > [3] http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/html-api-map/raw-file/tip/Overview.html#note_variant > > [4] https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=16769#c2
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