Re: Issue 131 Change Proposal

Are you suggesting that text selection and cursor positioning are part of text editing?

I submit that they are a valid mode of navigation and text selection does not mean editing. Read only is fine.

-Charles

On Feb 10, 2012, at 2:44 PM, Frank Olivier <Frank.Olivier@microsoft.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the feedback, Rich.
> 
> I think that there are two issues in 131 (text editing in canvas, and reading static text rendered into a canvas element); I have filed change proposals for both.
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> I think that, for the issue of reading text from a canvas, we should be able to achieve consensus, as you note below.
> For text editing, consensus seems less likely.
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> I propose that we split 131 into separate issues.
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> Thanks
> Frank
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Schwerdtfeger [mailto:schwer@us.ibm.com] 
> Sent: Friday, February 10, 2012 1:41 PM
> To: Frank Olivier
> Cc: public-html@w3.org; public-html-a11y@w3.org
> Subject: Re: Issue 131 Change Proposal
> 
> Hi Frank,
> 
> Thanks for submitting another solution Frank.
> 
> I believe this would work provided we add some work under way related to ARIA 1.1.  I am not sure everyone uses the subdom text cursor position.
> Another issue is that Macs, currently don't support caret browsing. If you would like me to discuss the work under way I would be happy to do that. In short, I believe this would work but we would need to do the other things.
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> Note: to the chairs: This is not an alternative to the text baseline. That is another aspect for Issue 131 which would apply to either proposal for caret/selection tracking.
> 
> Rich
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> Rich Schwerdtfeger
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> From:    Frank Olivier <Frank.Olivier@microsoft.com>
> To:    "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>,
> Cc:    "public-html-a11y@w3.org" <public-html-a11y@w3.org>
> Date:    02/10/2012 03:12 PM
> Subject:    Issue 131 Change Proposal
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> I would like to submit http://www.w3.org/wiki/Reading_text_in_canvas as a change proposal for this issue.
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> This proposal defines author guidance that outlines a solution to the problem of reading text in canvas elements, improving accessibility.
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> Thanks
> Frank
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Received on Friday, 10 February 2012 23:19:53 UTC