Re: hit testing and retained graphics

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi> wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 14:23 +0000, Sean Hayes wrote:
>> It took me 5 minutes to find these examples of people "doing it wrong"
>> http://www.ericom.com/AccessNow_FAQs.asp
>> http://www.thinvnc.com/index.html
>
> These seem to be remote desktop clients that transfer the screen image
> from another system. If <canvas> had the API Rich is proposing, would
> you expect these apps to use the remote system accessibility API to
> transfer the accessibility API state over? How does Microsoft Remote
> Desktop and VNC deal with this with non-Web clients?

AFAICT the canvas accessibility APIs proposed would not help the remote system
access use-case.

I tried to discuss this previously:

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-a11y/2011Jan/0164.html

If this is incorrect could someone explain *how* they would help?

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Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Received on Thursday, 30 June 2011 17:36:50 UTC