- From: Léonie Watson <lwatson@paciellogroup.com>
- Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2015 12:46:09 +0100
- To: "'James Craig'" <jcraig@apple.com>, "'WAI Protocols & Formats'" <public-pfwg@w3.org>
> From: James Craig [mailto:jcraig@apple.com] > Sent: 19 June 2015 10:43 > In an effort to reduce the author complexity of ARIA, I'd like to propose the > spec's first deprecations: @aria-grabbed and @aria-dropeffect. +1 [...] > Accessible drag & drop is a feature that may be better left to native > implementations. It could potentially be solved by some future version of > ARIA, but I do not believe @aria-grabbed and @aria-dropeffect do the job. > It's a bad API that should be culled from the 1.1 spec. Do you think it would be worth proposing an HTML5 extension for this? > > In case there is any objection: I could be convinced to drop the call for > deprecation if anyone can point to a single real-world web application (not a > test case) that works well in any browser+screenreader combo. The example > should use @aria-grabbed and @aria-dropeffect accurately in conjunction > with native or scripted drag and drop behavior. Even in test cases using ARIA to spec, I haven't yet found an example that works reliably across all (or even most) browser/AT combinations. Léonie. -- Léonie Watson - Senior accessibility engineer @LeonieWatson @PacielloGroup PacielloGroup.com
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