Re: hit regions Firefox support update

On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 8:50 AM, Richard Schwerdtfeger <schwer@us.ibm.com>wrote:

> Congrats to Mozilla! We will still need the drawFocusIfNeeded though per
> Rik's comment below.
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> One concern I have about the current hit region spec. is that it only
> allows the author to provide a role that does not show up in the DOM so
> until we get some changes in that we want for ARIA 1.1 (to query the role)
> the accessibility test tools won't pick up the role. Additionally, a role
> is not enough. We need states and properties. We would be better to simply
> apply ARIA attributes to the DOM at this time.
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Hi Rich,

the minimal implementation always requires that you provide a control (= an
element in the fallback content).
The region is supposed to inherit the ARIA role of that element. Would that
not be sufficient?

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> [image: Inactive hide details for Dominic Mazzoni ---02/14/2014 01:36:50
> PM---I'm interested in implementing hit regions in Chrome, but]Dominic
> Mazzoni ---02/14/2014 01:36:50 PM---I'm interested in implementing hit
> regions in Chrome, but I haven't discussed it with all of the sta
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> From: Dominic Mazzoni <dmazzoni@google.com>
> To: Jay Munro <jaymunro@microsoft.com>
> Cc: Rik Cabanier <cabanier@gmail.com>, Alexander Surkov <
> surkov.alexander@gmail.com>, "public-canvas-api@w3.org" <
> public-canvas-api@w3.org>, Mark Sadecki <mark@w3.org>
> Date: 02/14/2014 01:36 PM
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> Subject: Re: hit regions Firefox support update
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> I'm interested in implementing hit regions in Chrome, but I haven't
> discussed it with all of the stakeholders at Google yet. I'm really excited
> to see that Mozilla has already implemented it and that should definitely
> give us some momentum.
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> On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Jay Munro <*jaymunro@microsoft.com*<jaymunro@microsoft.com>>
> wrote:
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>    Lets see what folks say Monday on hit regions, whether we put them in
>    CR or not. Mark, want to add it to the agenda?
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>    Sent from my Windows Phone
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>    *From: *Rik Cabanier
> * Sent: *2/14/2014 11:20 AM
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> * To: *Jay Munro
> * Cc: *Alexander Surkov; *public-canvas-api@w3.org*<public-canvas-api@w3.org>;
>    Mark Sadecki
> * Subject: *Re: hit regions Firefox support update
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>    On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 10:41 AM, Jay Munro <*jaymunro@microsoft.com*<jaymunro@microsoft.com>>
>    wrote:
>       We've already removed all the at risk features with the exception
>       of drawFocusIfNeeded , which was agreed upon in the A11y subgroup.
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>    We'll have to bring it back if we want a11y to work in canvas :-(
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>       *From:* Rik Cabanier [mailto:*cabanier@gmail.com*<cabanier@gmail.com>]
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> * Sent:* Friday, February 14, 2014 10:15 AM
> * To:* Jay Munro
> * Cc:* Alexander Surkov; *public-canvas-api@w3.org*<public-canvas-api@w3.org>;
>       Mark Sadecki
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> * Subject:* Re: hit regions Firefox support update
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>       On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 9:40 AM, Jay Munro <*jaymunro@microsoft.com*<jaymunro@microsoft.com>>
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>       Do we have a 2nd implementation of hitRegions?
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>       We do not.
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>       They are listed as at-risk so we can still go to CR with them.
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>       We should probably update the at-risk list to state that *part* or
>       all of hit regions might be removed.
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>          *From:* Rik Cabanier [mailto:*cabanier@gmail.com*<cabanier@gmail.com>]
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> * Sent:* Friday, February 14, 2014 9:33 AM
> * To:* Alexander Surkov
> * Cc:* *public-canvas-api@w3.org* <public-canvas-api@w3.org>; Mark Sadecki
> * Subject:* Re: hit regions Firefox support update
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>          I just requested that the patches are checked into firefox.
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>          If all goes well, this means that the upcoming nightly build
>          will have basic support for hit regions.
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>          If people had earlier tests for drawFocusIfNeeded, they can
>          simply update them as follows.
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>          old code:
>          ctx.drawFocusIfNeeded(element);
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>          new code:
>             ctx.drawFocusIfNeeded(element);
>             ctx.addHitRegion({control: element};
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>          Alex, how can we turns hit regions and focus rings on by default?
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>          On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 10:40 AM, Alexander Surkov <
>          *surkov.alexander@gmail.com* <surkov.alexander@gmail.com>> wrote:
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>          Hi. Here's an update of hit region implementation in Firefox in
>          case if you're curious .
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>          This week we've got a prototype of hit regions which can be used
>          to change accessible boundaries. The work hasn't been landed into Firefox
>          Nightly yet but there's a try build [2].
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>          There's no plans to continue the work on drawFocusIfNeeded to
>          fit it for accessible boundaries setting since hit regions looks promising.
>          It's worth to notice though that drawFocusIfNeeded (used to draw the focus)
>          is part of Firefox and there's no actions to undo this.
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>          You can follow hit regions work by watching Mozilla bug [1].
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>          Thanks.
>          Alexander.
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>          [1] *https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=966591*<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=966591>
>          [2] *https://tbpl.mozilla.org/?tree=Try&rev=a0775f0bf042*<https://tbpl.mozilla.org/?tree=Try&rev=a0775f0bf042>
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