RE: You Got Your SVG in my Canvas! Mmm, Delicious!

As per New Bug Priority Policy [1] you may want to consider adding the PriorityRequest keyword to these bugs to get them evaluated for P1 processing.

>- If you have a bug that needs to be addressed urgently, add the PriorityRequest keyword. These bugs will be reviewed for P1 status.

/paulc

[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2011Jun/0315.html

Paul Cotton, Microsoft Canada
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From: public-html-a11y-request@w3.org [mailto:public-html-a11y-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Richard Schwerdtfeger
Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2011 6:45 PM
To: Charles Pritchard
Cc: Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis; Tab Atkins Jr.; public-canvas-api@w3.org; public-canvas-api-request@w3.org; Doug Schepers; public-html-a11y@w3.org
Subject: Re: You Got Your SVG in my Canvas! Mmm, Delicious!


I filed registered two bugs related to this problem.

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=13176

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=13181



Rich Schwerdtfeger
CTO Accessibility Software Group

[Inactive hide details for Charles Pritchard ---07/07/2011 01:07:18 PM---On 7/7/2011 8:53 AM, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote: >> >]Charles Pritchard ---07/07/2011 01:07:18 PM---On 7/7/2011 8:53 AM, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote: >> > Let's stick to the problem at hand. ... canv

From: Charles Pritchard <chuck@jumis.com<mailto:chuck@jumis.com>>
To: Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis <bhawkeslewis@googlemail.com<mailto:bhawkeslewis@googlemail.com>>
Cc: Richard Schwerdtfeger/Austin/IBM@IBMUS, "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com<mailto:jackalmage@gmail.com>>, "public-canvas-api@w3.org<mailto:public-canvas-api@w3.org>" <public-canvas-api@w3.org<mailto:public-canvas-api@w3.org>>, public-canvas-api-request@w3.org<mailto:public-canvas-api-request@w3.org>, Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org<mailto:schepers@w3.org>>
Date: 07/07/2011 01:07 PM
Subject: Re: You Got Your SVG in my Canvas! Mmm, Delicious!
Sent by: public-canvas-api-request@w3.org<mailto:public-canvas-api-request@w3.org>

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On 7/7/2011 8:53 AM, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote:
>> > Let's stick to the problem at hand. ... canvas. Eventually we will get to SVG but not today. Canvas is part of HTML and it needs to be fixed.
> SVG is just as much a part of HTML as the canvas context, so I'm
> confused by the implication that it's okay for us to fix any
> accessibility problems with using canvas with HTML before we fix any
> accessibility problems with using SVG with HTML.

Rich is referring to LC and other W3C processes having to do with HTML5.

SVG a11y issues are not blocking issues for HTML5; Canvas issues are
blocking issues.

-Charles