Re: Script-Based Web Accessibility Proposal - Web Accessibility Actions

Thanks for forwarding the doc Jonathan, it does look very interesting.

Josh

> Jonathan Avila <mailto:jon.avila@ssbbartgroup.com>
> 27 October 2015 13:54
> The Web Accessibility Actions section of the Script-based Web 
> Accessibility proposal document at 
> https://github.com/cyns/wapa/blob/master/ScriptAccessibility.md 
> discusses how actions of a web element might be accessed through an 
> accessibility API with an assistive technology. I bring up this 
> discussion in relation to WCAG extension work.
>
> I believe this is what is needed on mobile platforms as the current 
> support for a keyboard interface is broken on platforms such as iOS. 
> This would also abstract actions away from specific key bindings to 
> make them more generally discoverable and operable without knowing 
> specific keystrokes (on platforms where keystrokes can be sent by the 
> AT user).
>
> Jonathan
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