Re: Widget Accessibility

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




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Marcos Caceres
http://datadriven.com.au

Received on Friday, 7 August 2009 15:32:55 UTC