Re: Request input on the potential usefulness of HTML to Platform Accessibility APIs Implementation Guide

Right.

Cheers,
D

On 17/01/11 10:29 AM, Steve Faulkner wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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 <http://www.paciellogroup.com> |
>>     www.HTML5accessibility.com <http://www.HTML5accessibility.com> |
>>     www.twitter.com/stevefaulkner <http://www.twitter.com/stevefaulkner>
>>     HTML5: Techniques for providing useful text alternatives -
>>     dev.w3.org/html5/alt-techniques/
>>     <http://dev.w3.org/html5/alt-techniques/>
>>     Web Accessibility Toolbar -
>>     www.paciellogroup.com/resources/wat-ie-about.html
>>     <http://www.paciellogroup.com/resources/wat-ie-about.html>
>>
>>
>
>
>
>
> -- 
> with regards
>
> Steve Faulkner
> Technical Director - TPG
>
> www.paciellogroup.com <http://www.paciellogroup.com> | 
> www.HTML5accessibility.com <http://www.HTML5accessibility.com> | 
> www.twitter.com/stevefaulkner <http://www.twitter.com/stevefaulkner>
> HTML5: Techniques for providing useful text alternatives - 
> dev.w3.org/html5/alt-techniques/ <http://dev.w3.org/html5/alt-techniques/>
> Web Accessibility Toolbar - 
> www.paciellogroup.com/resources/wat-ie-about.html
> <http://www.paciellogroup.com/resources/wat-ie-about.html>

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