RE: hit testing and retained graphics

Jonas Sicking wrote:
> 
> Sorry for replying to an old email here, but this sat in my "drafts"
> folder and I figured I might as well send it.

Hi Jonas,

I'm pretty much staying out of the larger discussion, but you raise some
interesting points.

>
> For what it's worth, I don't think the disconnect is in if we should
> start with use cases or not. I think the disconnect is between what
> type of feature we're designing and thus the use cases are.

I also think that part of the disconnect is in seeing accessibility
capabilities as a "feature" rather than a foundational requirement. It
seems that with <canvas> we unfortunately missed that need in the initial
deployment phase, so now (it appears to me) we are left with trying to
retro-fit a solution in place. I can appreciate the desire for elegant and
easy solutions, however I don't think we will find one here: Retrofits are
rarely easy, and often quite messy, which is also what I think is
contributing to the discussion. 


> 
> Or, put another way, when working with accessibility for computers, we
> don't try to attack the problem "how do we make computer displays
> accessible", we attack the problem "how do we make microsoft word
> accessible, how do we make the OSX file system browser accessible".

Fair enough. 

How do we make *interactive features* that can be created using <canvas>
accessible? 

Cheers!

JF

Received on Friday, 8 July 2011 02:12:42 UTC