- From: Gez Lemon <g.lemon@webprofession.com>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:21:31 +0100
- To: HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>
Hi everyone, At last week's teleconference, Rich suggested that I follow-up with an email to this group outlining what is required to make drag and drop accessible with HTML5. As I mentioned last week, event names are defined in a device independent way in the HTML specification, so should be able to be made accessible to keyboard only users. The HTML5 drag and drop mechanism defines seven events: * dragstart (initiate the drag and drop operation) * drag (continue drag and drop operation) * dragenter (determine if accepted) * dragleave (leaving a target) * dragover (provide feedback to user) * drop (complete the operation) * dragend (tidy up) These events cannot currently be activated using the keyboard alone in user agents. The drag and drop processing model is defined in the HTML5 specification: http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#drag-and-drop-processing-model The first thing we need is feedback from browser manufacturers to determine if these events can be fired using the keyboard alone resulting in an accessible workflow. Regards, Gez -- _____________________________ Supplement your vitamins http://juicystudio.com http://twitter.com/gezlemon
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