Re: Widget Accessibility

• From: Marcos Caceres <marcosc@opera.com>
• Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:10:15 +0200
• To: Simon Harper <simon.harper@manchester.ac.uk>
• CC: public-webapps@w3.org
• Message-ID: <4A857047.2050205@opera.com>

Simon Harper wrote:
> Great, so that clears up some parts of my misunderstanding of the widget
> spec. I thought that the spec, as is, would form a series ending up at
> UI and therefore we would be able to contribute at an early stage.

Heh, we actually started this working group four years ago specifically 
with that goal in mind (standardize something like XAML or XUL)! Most of 
us quickly threw that idea in the bin when we saw how awesome HTML5 and 
XBL2 were (and a few other reasons, we won't go into here):)

> However, I see that you're correct re the problems of not being
> appropriate to address accessibility here.
>
> Thanks for the chat. Much appreciated.

No probs!

Received on Friday, 14 August 2009 14:10:59 UTC