Re: adding type attribute to Canvas HTML DOM interface

But Charles,I think we should accept that most of the developers are not
aware of ARIA,

and so the won't use Aria attributes,I think so type can be a good
suggestion for adding to Canvas tag.

On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 11:17 PM, Charles Pritchard <chuck@jumis.com> wrote:

> On 12/22/11 11:38 AM, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 7:19 PM, Charles Pritchard<chuck@jumis.com>
>>  wrote:
>>
>>> I do think this is an idea to investigate in ARIA 1.1. One may, with
>>> ARIA,
>>> use multiple roles, and the AT will fall back to known roles.
>>> So you can do something like role="game application".
>>>
>> What could user agents (including AT) do differently for "game"?
>>
>
> In my private conversations with some vendors, games have been mentioned
> repeatedly as a special case.
>
> I really don't have a good answer for this, I only have some brainstorming
> ideas.
>
> There may be screen heuristics such as anti-flashing filters [to help with
> light sensitivity], it may be a helpful hint in signaling that an element
> can run in full screen. It may be a hint, in itself, that some part of the
> content is not accessible, because it would defeat the purpose of the game.
>
> I think it's something that could be investigated in ARIA 1.1, but I don't
> have sufficient information to bring to the table at this point.
>
> It's my personal belief that games can be made accessible, but that there
> are concerns about "cheating" and/or alternate game play styles. There was
> a great showing of people at the Seattle Accessibility Camp this year
> (2011), and I really enjoyed sitting in on a conversation about gaming and
> accessibility.
> http://**accessibilitycampseattle.org/**blog/<http://accessibilitycampseattle.org/blog/>
>
> One could look at the Zynga model where a game may be difficult to make
> accessible, and where that accessibility may be a means for circumventing
> the game dynamics by making it easier for programmers to create automated
> scripts. That's conjecture, too... But I'm trying to provide some thought
> on this discussion and conjecture is all I have at this point. That and
> some off-list conversations.
>
>
>
> -Charles
>



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