- From: Richard Schwerdtfeger <schwer@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2014 14:37:17 -0600
- To: Ben Peters <Ben.Peters@microsoft.com>, Dominic Mazzoni <dmazzoni@google.com>, James Craig <jcraig@apple.com>, "public-indie-ui@w3.org" <public-indie-ui@w3.org>
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We are revamping our accessibility test tools to be less dependent on the DOM. It is more than just CSS that makes the DOM less reliable. Rich Schwerdtfeger From: Richard Schwerdtfeger/Austin/IBM@IBMUS To: Dominic Mazzoni <dmazzoni@google.com> Cc: Ben Peters <Ben.Peters@microsoft.com>, James Craig <jcraig@apple.com>, "public-indie-ui@w3.org" <public-indie-ui@w3.org> Date: 11/07/2014 02:15 PM Subject: Re: Intention Events and Javascript Screen Readers true. CSS is injecting content that does not show up in the DOM. Rich Schwerdtfeger Inactive hide details for Dominic Mazzoni ---11/07/2014 02:09:46 PM---On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 11:45 AM, James Craig <jcraig@applDominic Mazzoni ---11/07/2014 02:09:46 PM---On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 11:45 AM, James Craig <jcraig@apple.com> wrote: > 2. Someone mentioned Chrome From: Dominic Mazzoni <dmazzoni@google.com> To: James Craig <jcraig@apple.com> Cc: Ben Peters <Ben.Peters@microsoft.com>, "public-indie-ui@w3.org" <public-indie-ui@w3.org> Date: 11/07/2014 02:09 PM Subject: Re: Intention Events and Javascript Screen Readers On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 11:45 AM, James Craig <jcraig@apple.com> wrote: 2. Someone mentioned ChromeVox which, to my knowledge is the only screen reader that relies entirely on the Web Browser (this may no longer be an accurate statement) rather than on a platform accessibility API. Initially it was dependent on the DOM, but I think it now has more hooks into browser internals, not just the client-side DOM. This is correct. Initially it was a design goal to see if we could build ChromeVox using only web APIs. This proved to be an unreasonable limitation because there are too many corner cases where DOM APIs are insufficient, and as the web continues to evolve, these APIs are constantly one step behind.
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