Re: Proposal: Canvas accessibility and a media querries approach for alternative content (Action Item 6 in the HTML Accessibility Task Force)

David, Correct again.

 Also, it's not the responsibility of the HTML-WG itself
to envision every possible  innovation in information
presentation. Our goal here should be to ensure that the content eneded
for producing such presentations is available via the right APIs
--- your average Web page author saying "computers clearly cant
speak complex math, let me just create a GIF/PNG image since the
only users who consume my equations are those who can see" would
leave the Web in the dark ages 

David Singer writes:
 > On Jan 13, 2010, at 18:03 , Ian Hickson wrote:
 > 
 > > On Wed, 13 Jan 2010, David Singer wrote:
 > >> On Jan 12, 2010, at 14:52 , Ian Hickson wrote:
 > >>> 
 > >>> I don't understand why we would want, or need, to make the accessible 
 > >>> canvas DOM any different than the regular fallback DOM.
 > >> 
 > >> I may be misunderstanding the question, and if so, I apologize.
 > >> 
 > >> If I have some kind of scientific visualization with controls that I do 
 > >> in canvas, and there really isn't a way to do that without canvas (i.e. 
 > >> no real way to draw it), my fallback for browsers not capable of canvas 
 > >> may be "we regret the loss of picture", whereas my shadow for the 
 > >> accessible user using canvas may well be a set of controls -- 
 > >> check-boxes ('Gravity morphing?') sliders ('Phi incursion angle!'), 
 > >> buttons ('fire photon torpedo!') and so on.
 > >> 
 > >> If I am right, I would tend to ask the opposite: how can we be sure that 
 > >> the fallback for non-canvas-capable browsers will essentially always be 
 > >> the same as the shadow for canvas-capable browsers needing accessible 
 > >> access?
 > > 
 > > In this scenario, how is the data made accessible to blind users?
 > 
 > 
 > Why is the accessibility need assumed to be visual?  We have motor-impaired people who cannot operate a mouse, but who can interact with buttons/sliders etc. using, for example, voice controls.
 > 
 > David Singer
 > Multimedia and Software Standards, Apple Inc.
 >

Received on Friday, 15 January 2010 20:00:41 UTC