Re: Please vote on the canvas accessibility proposal

hi Ian,

>All the other cases I can think of -- braille users with no vision at all,
>speech synth users with no vision at all, text-mode users, etc -- the
>statement that there is no canvas support is actually pretty accurate,
>though not especially kind. It'd probably be better in these cases to
>actually let the user know that they are missing critical functionality
>than to silently say nothing.

1. how do they know that it is critical content?
2. how do they know what canvas support means? how many people who use a
browser (many peopel don't even know what a browser it) now or will in the
future know what it means?
3. If they are using firefox for example, they ARE using a browser that
supports canvas.
4. there is no indication that the element is missing apart from the text
that will be encountered inline along with any other text on the page, it
will make no sense.

regards
stevef


On 25 February 2010 11:00, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote:

> On Thu, 25 Feb 2010, Steven Faulkner wrote:
> >
> > > I mean (non-conforming) cases like:
> > > <canvas>Your browser doesn't support canvas.</canvas>
> >
> > I think it can be assumed that the non-conforming cases will be in the
> > majority as developers cannot even provide a text alternative for an
> > image in many cases.
> >
> > So why should users have this garbage (non-conforming content) presented
> > to them when they are using abrowser that supports canvas?
>
> There are several cases of note here; the only one where it would be
> suboptimal is the case of users with limited vision who can still _see_
> the canvas, and might be able to operate it (albeit without help with
> respect to focusing, etc) by zooming it. For these users, saying that
> there's no canvas support is indeed suboptimal, though I fear that their
> experience will be so miserable as it is given the lack of proper support
> that this extra level of annoyance will hardly be noticed.
>
> All the other cases I can think of -- braille users with no vision at all,
> speech synth users with no vision at all, text-mode users, etc -- the
> statement that there is no canvas support is actually pretty accurate,
> though not especially kind. It'd probably be better in these cases to
> actually let the user know that they are missing critical functionality
> than to silently say nothing.
>
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with regards

Steve Faulkner
Technical Director - TPG Europe
Director - Web Accessibility Tools Consortium

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