Re: comments from WCAG WG on Touch with AT and possible generalisation

Mentioned this now on the WCAG WG list as well, FWIW 
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-gl/2016JulSep/0635.html

On 31/08/2016 09:08, Patrick H. Lauke wrote:
> I was skimming over the minutes from yesterday's WCAG WG call
> https://www.w3.org/2016/08/30-wai-wcag-minutes.html and noting the
> concerns in topic 4 about Touch with AT being perhaps too tech-specific.
>
> As I was also proposing a "Keyboard with AT" SC (concerned with AT that
> remap keystrokes), maybe we should consider merging these two SCs into a
> general "Input remapped by AT" type SC? The techniques will then be more
> tech-specific, but the general high-level concept will be the same: some
> AT will remap the normal input mechanisms (AT grabbing specific
> keystrokes, or intercepting specific touchscreen gestures, etc), and
> that authors need to account for that (by sticking with input-agnostic
> event listeners, for instance).
>
> Thoughts?
>
> P


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