Permissions Workshop Followup from Ted Drake

Colleagues:

I'm forwarding notes from Ted Drake regarding the W3C Privacy and
Permissions Workshop he attended on our behalf in late September. Ted
will be in India until November.

Drake, Ted writes:
> 
> I published my notes on the privacy event: http://www.last-child.com/notes-permission-user-consent/
> 
> I was able to keep accessibility in the discussion when appropriate. It was a comprehensive meeting and it was interesting to hear the voice of browsers and content creators trying to come to a mutual decision. The browsers could implement basic privacy rules, but the content creators confessed that they may ignore the browser settings if they really needed consent.
> 
> For accessibility, we need to watch the VR space.  This is still being discussed as a visual medium, but it can be just as engaging for a blind user listening to 3d audio. However, controls are still discussed as a visual element and not as a multi-sense element.
> 
> The other area of concern is the doorhanger approach for permissions. This is a non-modal panel that is part of the browser, but extends into the web page space to describe the permission request. The browser reps were not aware of how a keyboard user would access these panels and how focus management would work. That’s not to say they are a problem, but there wasn’t an answer from these reps.
> 
> I will be back in the states in November.
> 
> Ted

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Janina Sajka

Linux Foundation Fellow
Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures http://www.w3.org/wai/apa

Received on Saturday, 6 October 2018 13:49:09 UTC