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>