Review and discussion of the WebXR DOM Overlays Module FPWD

Hi all,

I have reviewed the WebXR DOM Overlays Module FPWD as per my action 
item. [1]

Overview

This module describes a mechanism for showing interactive 2D web content 
during an immersive WebXR session. It needs to be enabled as a feature 
to display DOM content. When active, it allows user interactions - DOM 
pointer events etc.

Here is my draft response regarding this spec:

The Accessible Platform Architectures (APA) working group has reviewed 
the first public working draft of the 'WebXR DOM Overlays Module ' 
https://www.w3.org/TR/webxr-dom-overlays-1/.

We have the following questions:

* Is this module content accessible to users of assistive technologies?
* Can this module content be used as a container for accessibility 
related semantics? Rather like where the browser visually renders an 
abstraction of the DOM content, and the screen reader uses an off screen 
model, or interrogates the DOM directly - is this the suggested model 
for usage in XR environments?
* There is potential for accessibility semantics to be included in these 
type of overlays, has been considered?

Thanks

Josh

[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/webxr-dom-overlays-1/

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Emerging Web Technology Specialist/Accessibility (WAI/W3C)

Received on Wednesday, 29 September 2021 11:15:22 UTC