- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 06:04:00 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Cc: Richard Schwerdtfeger <schwer@us.ibm.com>, James Craig <jcraig@apple.com>, public-canvas-api@w3.org, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>, David Singer <singer@apple.com>
On Fri, 22 Jan 2010, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: > > > > Can browser vendors confirm that they are willing to prominently > > expose this new selection UI? > > At Apple, our accessibility model for native apps is that users of > assistive technologies always get the real app UI, but semantic > information allows them to receive the information and/or operate the > controls in other ways. So you don't ever write a full contrast UI. The > user just goes to the Universal Access panel in System Preferences, and > chooses one of several high contrast options (including white-on-black > display, grayscale, and a contrast control). The the OS applies it to > all running applications. We believe that application authors are > [unlikely] to implement multiple wholly separate user interfaces for > different accessibility needs, so instead we give them the tools to > build a single interface adaptable to many needs. Furthermore, we think > it is good in principle if users with accessibility needs are > fundamentally using the same interface. If a blind user and a sighted > user are using fundamentally the same UI, just operated in different > ways, then it is much easier for the two of them to collaborate, or give > each other technical support or just helpful tips. We believe in this so > strongly that we actually have visual onscreen elements for certain > features that are intended for the blind. For example, when braille > output is enabled, it displays to the screen as well as to a braille > output device. I entirely agree. This is exactly the problem I have with Richard's proposed fallback markup. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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