IE and support for exposing semantics of non-interactive HTML semantics

Hi Cynthia, Frank
(ccd public-pf list, but please reply to the HTML list as non PF members
cannot reply to public-pf list)

Can either of you give any clue as to if/when/how non interactive semantics
of HTML features will be able to be exposed via accessibility APIs used by
IE?

For example, we are currently discussing implementation of the <time>
element on a Firefox bug
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1095927

It looks like we have consensus (there) to expose the element name as an
Ia2 object attribute role and the datetime attribute as an object attribute.

The semantics could also be expressed via ATK and AX, but there appears to
be no method to do so using MSAA + UIA Express, it would really be helpful
for accessibility layer interoperability if a method be provided that is
implemented in IE.
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Regards

SteveF
HTML 5.1 <http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/>