- From: Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis <bhawkeslewis@googlemail.com>
- Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 12:45:46 +0000
- To: Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
- Cc: Richard Schwerdtfeger <schwer@us.ibm.com>, public-html@w3.org, HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>, Sam Ruby <rubys@us.ibm.com>
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com> wrote: > In either case whether its browser based or AT based heuristics there > appears to be a distinct possibility that a false identification will > occur. Yep. As mentioned, this risk is heavily exacerbated by the lack of optimization and standardization. Note this is also a (lesser) risk with the infinitesimal slice of the corpus making use of role="presentation". It's remotely possible that the best results would actually be achieved by treating role="presentation" as just another (heavily weighted) flag rather than as authoritative. I guess we'll have to wait and see how authors and authoring tools implement role="presentation". Regardless of what the HTML5 spec ultimately says about it, I would not be surprised to see plenty of false positives and negatives. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
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