- From: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 00:23:57 +0200
- To: Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
- Cc: Chaals McCathieNevile <w3b@chaals.com>, John Foliot <john@foliot.ca>, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, public-html@w3.org, HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>
Steve Faulkner, Tue, 21 Aug 2012 22:40:22 +0100: >> Given that Steve’s focus on A11Y APIs, then I don't understand that he >> mention this statement by NVDA developer James Teh. > > if you read back in the thread you will see it was in response to > chaals asking me for a reference to my previous statement: > > "I also think that some AT will simply not implement the rich hidden > content model as described, The NVDA developers have not implemented > longdesc due to it having no visible UI (for example)." > > in other words it doesn't help to have stuff exposed by browsers if AT > don't make use of it. Sorry. My point was only that Firefox implements @longdesc. And thus, that NVDA doesn't implement it because Firefox does not implement it, makes little sense to me. Unless NVDA relies on 'visible UI' rather than accessibility API, that is. -- leif halvard silli
Received on Tuesday, 21 August 2012 22:24:33 UTC