Re: questions arising from AT vendor in regards to Mozillas implementation of the canvas subdom

On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 5:42 PM, Charles Pritchard <chuck@jumis.com> wrote:

> Those are the issues, not character boundary maps. Nobody passes those to
> ATs. There is no AT that receives an integer array with the location of
> every character on the screen.
>

I don't think that's true - AT can call IAccessibleText::characterExtents
to query the exact bounding rectangle of any arbitrary character on the
screen, isn't that basically the same thing?


http://accessibility.linuxfoundation.org/a11yspecs/ia2/docs/html/interface_i_accessible_text.html#ab7f7ac52f4950d096856e59b0b008d1

- Dominic