Re: [csswg-drafts] [css-display-4] reading-flow/reading-order vs text selection (#12014)

The CSS Working Group just discussed `[css-display-4] reading-flow/reading-order vs text selection`.

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&lt;ydaniv> fantasai: a11y tree, some questions about reading flow with text selections and navigations<br>
&lt;ydaniv> ... we don't have an answer for this, but some concerns<br>
&lt;masonf> q+<br>
&lt;ydaniv> Rossen3: PaulG5 on the call, can we have some help from a11y folks?<br>
&lt;ydaniv> PaulG5: yeah, can do that<br>
&lt;Rossen3> ack masonf<br>
&lt;bkardell> q+ to ask if there are any actual user studies?<br>
&lt;masonf> https://github.com/w3c/selection-api/issues/336<br>
&lt;ydaniv> masonf: wanted to say, couple of related issues, about text selection, flat tree vs layout tree<br>
&lt;ydaniv> ... quick conclusion that for selection it's pretty tough<br>
&lt;ydaniv> ... requires selection API to support multiple ranges<br>
&lt;ydaniv> ... so carefully saying we have issues here<br>
&lt;ydaniv> Rossen3: can I also ask you to cross link issues?<br>
&lt;Rossen3> ack bkardell<br>
&lt;Zakim> bkardell, you wanted to ask if there are any actual user studies?<br>
&lt;ydaniv> masonf: one of the comments has a link to the issue<br>
&lt;dbaron> (Gecko has historically supported multiple-range selections although I'm not sure if it still does.)<br>
&lt;ydaniv> bkardell: I worry that users will find this intuitive, would rather we have a study to get this right<br>
&lt;ydaniv> PaulG5: there are some screen reader users in APA that can help<br>
&lt;ydaniv> ... we just had a meeting this morning, will send another call out to the group<br>
&lt;ydaniv> Rossen3: thank you, anything else?<br>
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