- From: Bruce Lawson <brucel@opera.com>
- Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 16:50:22 -0000
- To: "Jonas Sicking" <jonas@sicking.cc>, "Steven Faulkner" <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
- Cc: "Shelley Powers" <shelley.just@gmail.com>, "HTMLWG WG" <public-html@w3.org>
On Thu, 01 Apr 2010 15:00:38 -0000, Steven Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > i agree that it is better for accessibility to have native controls > as the properties of these controls can be hooked up to accessibility > APIs by the browser. > In the case of the new HTML5 controls implemenetd in Opera there are a > number of issues: > 1. they do not expose any of their properties via an accessibility API. > 2. their styles and formatting cannot be modified to suit user > requirements. > 3. programmatic focus and keyborad operability is limited or > non-existent. FWIW, I have bugs filed for all 3 of these. I have no ETA from engineers on when they will be fixed, though. -- Hang loose and stay groovy, Bruce Lawson Web Evangelist www.opera.com (work) www.brucelawson.co.uk (personal) www.twitter.com/brucel
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