Re: Some thinking around the orientation discussion

On 05/05/2016 17:50, David MacDonald wrote:
> Added to WIKI
>
> https://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/mobile-a11y-tf/wiki/Proposed_revision_of_3.4.1

I was going to comment on the line about "Changes in orientation must be 
programmatically exposed", but I see that in the latest edit on the wiki 
that has been removed. Just to say I approve of this, partially because 
it's usually the domain of the OS/AT to announce an orientation change.

I *can* see that in certain situations it would be useful to announce to 
the user if something changed in the current page/view as a result of an 
orientation change (e.g. a completely different layout is introduced 
with more/less navigation options, functionalities, etc), but this is 
probably something that falls under the need to have a more generic "if 
parts of the page change, this change should be announced to the user" 
SC (which, at least for interface components, is probably covered by 
4.1.2, but not for non-user-interface cases.

For this latter part, is it worth proposing/thinking about another SC 
(which is, once again, not really "mobile" specific)?

P
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