Re: Comment on XML 2 Events

Hi Rich,

Yes, I just re-read your email, and realised what you were saying.  
Sorry about that.

However, using an element in this way sounds just like the plain text  
equivalent of @role, which therefore means it would probably have  
wider applicability than just <action>. I wonder if we should look at  
trying to generalise this.

Any thoughts on that?

Regards,

Mark


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On 11 Nov 2007, at 21:46, Richard Schwerdtfeger wrote:

> Hi Mark,
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> Not the same. purpose is just the description. When providing the  
> information to an assistive technology we can enumerate the named  
> actions.
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> Rich
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> Chair, IBM Accessibility Architecture Review Board
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> Hi Rich,
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> Are you sure it wasn't consciously dropped in favour of @role? It's
> the kind of thing we'd do. :)
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> Regards,
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> Mark
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>   Mark Birbeck, formsPlayer
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>   mark.birbeck@formsPlayer.com | +44 (0) 20 7689 9232
>   http://www.formsPlayer.com | http://internet-apps.blogspot.com
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>   standards. innovation.
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> On 9 Nov 2007, at 20:32, Richard Schwerdtfeger wrote:
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> > 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.
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> > <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.
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> > I would request that this be added.
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> > Rich
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> > Rich Schwerdtfeger
> > Distinguished Engineer, SWG Accessibility Architect/Strategist
> > Chair, IBM Accessibility Architecture Review Board
> > blog: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/schwer
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