- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 15:01:24 -0700
- To: "public-html@w3.org WG" <public-html@w3.org>
The two issues relating to canvas accessibility have a number of Change Proposals submitted: http://dev.w3.org/html5/status/issue-status.html#ISSUE-074 http://dev.w3.org/html5/status/issue-status.html#ISSUE-105 In reviewing these, the Chairs find that there are a number of separate questions that are not in perfect alignment with the Change Proposals or the issues: (1) Should we add a caret location API to canvas, or is the focus API sufficient? Supported by: http://www.w3.org/html/wg/wiki/ChangeProposals/canvasaccessibility Opposed by: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2010Jul/0219.html Partially opposed by: http://www.w3.org/html/wg/wiki/ChangeProposals/Map4NotAdom (2) Should we add a boolean nonav attribute to the canvas to hide its contents from AT and keyboard navigation? Supported by: http://www.w3.org/html/wg/wiki/ChangeProposals/canvasaccessibilitynonav Opposed by: http://www.w3.org/html/wg/wiki/ChangeProposals/Map4NotAdom Opposed by: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2010Jul/0219.html (3) Should we remove the ability to use the children of canvas as an accessible dom entirely, in favor of other techniques, such as usemap? Supported by: http://www.w3.org/html/wg/wiki/ChangeProposals/Map4NotAdom Opposed by: http://www.w3.org/html/wg/wiki/ChangeProposals/canvasaccessibilitynonav Opposed by: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2010Jul/0219.html (4) Should we add advisory text explaining how to use the focus rect API for efficient caret position notification, and change nothing else? Supported by: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2010Jul/0219.html Opposed by: http://www.w3.org/html/wg/wiki/ChangeProposals/canvasaccessibility (5) Should we add image map / usemap support as a possible way to represent focusable regions on the canvas? Supported by: http://www.w3.org/html/wg/wiki/ChangeProposals/addimagemaptocanvas Supported by: ttp://www.w3.org/html/wg/wiki/ChangeProposals/Map4NotAdom The Chairs think it would be best to survey each of these questions separately. If the Working Group is amenable to that approach, we will likely issue a five-part survey. If you have any comments or suggestions regarding this plan, please submit them by a week from today (Tuesday, September 28). This is also a final opportunity for authors of the referenced Change Proposals to update their Change Proposals with any additional material they think is relevant or helpful to the decision. Regards, Maciej
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