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

Hi Steve,
All I can say right now is that this is an area of functionality that we are following closely.  I am on my way out of the office for a vacation.  I will circle back with an update after the holidays.
Thanks,
Cynthia

From: Steve Faulkner [mailto:faulkner.steve@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, November 21, 2014 3:09 AM
To: HTMLWG WG; Cynthia Shelly; Frank Olivier; W3C WAI Protocols & Formats
Cc: Richard Schwerdtfeger
Subject: 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/>

Received on Saturday, 22 November 2014 01:20:48 UTC