RE: Do icons fall under - 1.3.3 question for shapes/icons alone that are used everywhere now but were not back in 2008



>-----Original Message-----
>From: Patrick H. Lauke [mailto:redux@splintered.co.uk]
>On 21/04/2016 18:14, James Nurthen wrote:
>> Touch devices often use overlays to explain functionality like this.
>> Sometimes these only appear when the app is started but others can be
>> recalled at other times.
>
>I'd suggest that the mobile TF and cognitive TF should have a little chinwag on
>the topic. It feels like a new (AAA ?) SC would be required, and would be
>"owned" by cognitive, but include a technique contributed in collaboration
>with mobile TF specifically about touchscreen interactions?

Are you envisaging that the mechanism would be implemented by a script in the content rather than in the user agent? If so, then having techniques for visually disclosing text alternatives in a touch screen user interface could indeed be valuable. If it should instead be implemented at the user agent level then it's outside the scope of this working group, though it would of course simplify the task for content authors, since providing the text alternative via standard HTML or SVG elements would be enough to make it visually available to users who request it (using a hover state in the case of a pointing device, or using whatever convention is arrived at for touch screen devices).

I thought there might already be a touch counterpart to hover, in which case it could readily be used for this purpose.


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