Re: Updated proposal round two (based on feedback from Monday's meeting)

On Wed, 17 Feb 2010, Richard Schwerdtfeger wrote:
> 
> So, the purpose of the adom attribute is to say that when it is set to 
> "true":
> 
> - Direct the browser to include whatever is in the subtree in the keyboard
> navigation order as it is currently
> being used to represent what is in the UI.
> - Direct the browser to map what is in the the subtree to the platform
> accessibility API as it is the author's intent to use
> it as the accessibility subtree.
> - Direct an accessibility test tool to analyze the subtree for
> accessibility support when it <canvas> is being rendered

That makes sense, except I don't understand why we would ever want to turn 
that behaviour _off_. The spec right now requires the UA and AT to assume 
that the "adom" behaviour is always enabled. Why is this a bad thing?

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