- From: Marcos Caceres <marcosc@opera.com>
- Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 17:31:52 +0200
- To: Simon Harper <simon.harper@manchester.ac.uk>
- Cc: public-webapps@w3.org
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Simon Harper<simon.harper@manchester.ac.uk> wrote: > Hi there, > I've been looking through the widget specifications specifically 'Widgets > 1.0: The Widget Landscape (Q1 2008)' - Figure 1 at > http://dev.w3.org/2006/waf/widgets-land/ > > I wonder if there is any concept of an accessibility bridge in either the > widget of web application specifications. I was thinking of something like > the Java Accessibility Bridge which links the code to the interpreter and on > to the OS. If there is the concept of the Web as an application Platform > then are there any similar concepts for making accessibility work in a > uniform way - built-in at the start as opposed to an ARIA addition? No, not for widgets. Widgets rely on HTML and its hooks for accessibility. See also: http://dev.w3.org/2006/waf/widgets-reqs/#user-interface-accessibility However, if you have any ideas about a better way of doing this, we would certainly like to hear it. Kind regards, Marcos -- Marcos Caceres http://datadriven.com.au
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