Re: drawFocusRing

no objection

regards
stevef

On 18 November 2011 18:25, Richard Schwerdtfeger <schwer@us.ibm.com> wrote:

> Frank, David, Chuck, Steve, Cynthia -
>
> In an effort to move things along I would like a vote of from the canvas
> accessibility sub team members. When we submitted on issue 131 our
> drawFocusRing method was accepted with the exception of canDrawCustom and
> there was concern that a situation could occur whereby a CustomFocusRing
> could be draw without driving the magnifier and Maciej had discussed
> separating the method into two function calls. At the Face to Face Maciej
> did not feel strongly that was needed.
>
> With the inclusion of hit testing we would now have the ability to provide
> the bounds of all objects to accessible objects associated with fallback
> content. Therefore I see no reason to change the method for drawFocusRing
> that is currently in the canvas 2D API to draw a custom focus ring to
> provide the bounds of the object given that by binding a path to a fallback
> content element we can provide the bounds necessary to the accessible
> object in the platform accessibility API or to a browser extension that may
> wish to provide magnification capability to objecs.
>
> So, assuming that Frank is drafting a modification to the Canvas 2D API to
> provide the bounds to accessible objects by binding the drawing path to a
> DOM element:
>
> 1. Does anyone object to leaving drawFocusRing as defined in the current
> working draft:
>
> http://dev.w3.org/html5/2dcontext/#focus-management
>
> 2. Does anyone object to my reopening issue 131 solely for providing the
> textBaseline in textMetrics (I will of course submit a change proposal to
> the canvas accessibility sub-team and accessibility task force for review)?
>
> Please respond with I object or I don't object.
>
> Thanks,
> Rich
>
> Rich
>
>
> Rich Schwerdtfeger
> CTO Accessibility Software Group
>



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Steve Faulkner
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