Re: html5 editor responds to Canvas accessibility related bugs

On Mon, 27 Sep 2010, Steven Faulkner wrote:
> 
> you wrote:
> "Absolutely, image maps are a terrible solution to making <canvas>
> accessible."
> 
> can you elaborate, sting its terrible , as you have said previously, 
> without providing any explanation, is not helpful.

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=9061#c2
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2010Jun/0542.html

I encourage you to try writing a usemap-based fallback for a real-world 
interactive canvas. Find a real-world use of <canvas>, and then try to 
make it accessible using an image map. The problems I describe will very 
quickly become quite apparent. (Bonus points if you find a canvas where 
the interaction is dynamic or animated, or where the painting code uses 
transforms, both of which increase the difficulty even further.)

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Received on Monday, 27 September 2010 08:28:10 UTC