Re: Comment on XML 2 Events

Hi Rich,

Are you sure it wasn't consciously dropped in favour of @role? It's  
the kind of thing we'd do. :)

Regards,

Mark

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On 9 Nov 2007, at 20:32, Richard Schwerdtfeger wrote:

> The <purpose> element was dropped from actions in the XML Events 2  
> specification. If you recall we had a purpose element as a child of  
> the old handler element which is now called <action>. We need  
> purpose to be a child of this.
>
> <purpose> would contain text describing the purpose of the action  
> which could be supported by a platform accessibility api to list  
> the actions that can beformed on a document object.
>
> I would request that this be added.
>
> Rich
>
> Rich Schwerdtfeger
> Distinguished Engineer, SWG Accessibility Architect/Strategist
> Chair, IBM Accessibility Architecture Review Board
> blog: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/schwer
>

Received on Sunday, 11 November 2007 21:27:03 UTC