- From: 'Janina Sajka' <janina@rednote.net>
- Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2016 12:04:01 -0400
- To: John Foliot <john.foliot@deque.com>
- Cc: "'White, Jason J'" <jjwhite@ets.org>, "'Léonie Watson'" <tink@tink.uk>, "'Rich Schwerdtfeger'" <richschwer@gmail.com>, "'Birkir Gunnarsson'" <birkir.gunnarsson@deque.com>, public-aria@w3.org
John Foliot writes: > White, Jason J wrote: > > > > I'm not proposing a change to the exit criteria, but I am expressing concern > > about the idea that a feature could be considered to have interoperable > > implementations where there are no demonstrable consumers on the AT side. In > > practice, I doubt that this will be a problem in ARIA 1.1, as there are several > > screen reader development organizations represented in the group (Apple, > > Google, Igalia, Microsoft, Nv Access, and possibly others that I've missed - > > apologies if so). > > ...although, as of today, I am only aware of Igalia publicly expressing support and intention-to-implement for this in a functionally useful way > And, have you ever Seen Apple, or Microsoft, or Freedom pre-announce features? They're closed code shops, and they're not going to tell you -- never have -- what they're going to do tomorrow or later on this afternoon. There's a correct horse and cart order here, let's not forget. Janina > JF > -- Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.443.300.2200 sip:janina@asterisk.rednote.net Email: janina@rednote.net 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
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