Re: [vibration] privacy consideration PING comments

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> 6. Applications might want to give indications when vibration is in use.
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>> Definitely, there SHOULD be an option to indicate it...
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> I don't think that's right. There is an indication that vibration is in
> use: the device is *moving*.
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It is, if the user is monitoring this device at that very moment, and also
including your considerations below (thanks!).


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> So there are a couple of more interesting things:
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> When a foregrounded page has permission for vibration, there should be an
> indicator. The same applies to a backgrounded page - I think something like
> the audio playing thing that browsers have started doing would be useful.
> Indeed, it would copy a familiar iconic paradigm from the world of phones
> which have had vibrators for more than two decades (and therefore is
> unlikely to have any IPR issues outstanding).
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> There are plenty of use cases for a backgrounded page having vibrate
> permission - the simple one being the same as the phone, that it is less
> obtrusive as a way of requesting attention, and works without actually
> seeing the device.
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> And finally, of course it is important that all such notifications or
> status indicators are actually *accessible* - have sufficient contrast, are
> announced to screen readers / magnifiers, etc. While this is something that
> browsers should be doing, rather than technically part of the spec, it is
> worth noting that in the privacy considerations and mitigations, and
> tracking whether we have acieved the goal. A spec that provides theoretical
> accessibility but is implemented consistently in a way that discriminates
> against users with disabilities really isn't good enough.
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This is, in essence, somewhat similar to what I was thinking about for long
now. I do hope to make the PDF public asap, definitely I'll post it to the
list.

Best
Lukasz


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> Chaals
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