- From: Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net>
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 07:52:57 -0500
- To: Deborah Kaplan <dkaplan@safaribooksonline.com>
- Cc: "White, Jason J" <jjwhite@ets.org>, Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>, Daniel Weck <daniel.weck@gmail.com>, Richard Schwerdtfeger <schwer@us.ibm.com>, Avneesh Singh <avneesh.sg@gmail.com>, Charles LaPierre <charlesl@benetech.org>, Juan Corona <juanc@evidentpoint.com>, George Kerscher <kerscher@montana.com>, "DPUB mailing list (public-digipub-ig@w3.org)" <public-digipub-ig@w3.org>, "PF (public-pfwg@w3.org)" <public-pfwg@w3.org>, Ric Wright <rkwright@geofx.com>, "Siegman, Tzviya - Hoboken" <tsiegman@wiley.com>, Zheng Xu <zxu@kobo.com>
Hi, Deborah: Deborah Kaplan writes: > On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 3:44 PM, Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net> wrote: > > > Is there another way that preserves the "no AT required" benefit? I > > regret I don't see what it could be, but it would be good if we could > > find a reliable robust way to do this without requiring AT. > > > > > Sure: acknowledge that plenty of already existing ARIA markup has vital > uses to keyboard, magnification, and other disabled users who don't use AT, > and accept that it might be time to stop restricting ARIA to AT users only. > > Deborah Kaplan Several people have responded in support of this notion. I also support it. So does the ARIA specification itself ... Sec. 1.3: "User Agent Support," of the ARIA specification says: http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/aria-1.1/introduction#ua-support "The WAI-ARIA specification neither requires or forbids user agents from enhancing native presentation and interaction behaviors on the basis of WAI-ARIA markup. Mainstream user agents might expose WAI-ARIA navigational landmarks (for example, as a dialog box or through a keyboard command) with the intention to facilitate navigation for all users. User agents are encouraged to maximize their usefulness to users, including users without disabilities." As a not infrequent user of Safari titles on my Android, I would love ARIA-Landmark support in Safari content. Can we look forward to this sometime soon? Natively, in the Safari app itself? Janina -- Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.443.300.2200 sip:janina@asterisk.rednote.net Email: janina@rednote.net Linux Foundation Fellow Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Chair, Protocols & Formats http://www.w3.org/wai/pf
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