Hi Dave, thanks for your feedback,
just to be clear, this your view as an user agent implementor (mozilla)
right?
regards
Steve
On 17 January 2011 15:21, David Bolter <dbolter@mozilla.com> wrote:
> The guide is necessary to providing interoperable accessibility API
> support (in the browser) for desktop accessibility clients such as screen
> readers. Note I don't care where the guide sits as long as we have it and
> more than one browser vendor agrees to seriously use it.
>
> Cheers,
> David
>
>
> On 15/01/11 10:41 AM, Steve Faulkner wrote:
>
> A number of people including myself , Cynthia Shelly, Dave Bolter and Rich
> have started working on HTML to Platform Accessibility APIs Implementation
> Guide <http://dev.w3.org/html5/html-api-map/overview.html>. It is
> currently intended as a informative reference produced by the W3C HTML WG.
>
>
>
> The editor of the HTML5 specification has provided some feedback [1] on
> this document.
>
>
> I would appreciate some feedback from involved in the accessibility
> implementation space in regards to the usefulness of documenting the mapping
> between HTML elements and attributes and the roles states and properties in
> the various platform accessibility APIs. And what sort of information should
> be provided, if any.
>
> If as the HTML5 editor states;
>
> "the proposed document is unnecessary. Vendors have not shown an
> inability to read the existing normative specifications"
>
> then it would be good to know that is not needed and will not be useful
> to its target audience, so those involved can use their time on more
> productive pursuits.
>
>
> [1]
> http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Objections_against_CP_for_ISSUE-129#The_HTML_to_Platform_Accessibility_APIs_Implementation_Guide
>
> --
> with regards
>
> Steve Faulkner
> Technical Director - TPG
>
> www.paciellogroup.com | www.HTML5accessibility.com |
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> HTML5: Techniques for providing useful text alternatives -
> dev.w3.org/html5/alt-techniques/
> Web Accessibility Toolbar -
> www.paciellogroup.com/resources/wat-ie-about.html
>
>
>
>
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with regards
Steve Faulkner
Technical Director - TPG
www.paciellogroup.com | www.HTML5accessibility.com |
www.twitter.com/stevefaulkner
HTML5: Techniques for providing useful text alternatives -
dev.w3.org/html5/alt-techniques/
Web Accessibility Toolbar - www.paciellogroup.com/resources/wat-ie-about.html