- From: Andrew Kirkpatrick <akirkpat@adobe.com>
- Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2017 15:32:13 +0000
- To: "Patrick H. Lauke" <redux@splintered.co.uk>, "w3c-wai-gl@w3.org" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Patrick, I agree that this is what we are trying to address, but the question has been raised asking for specific examples. Is there a specific case of your classic example that you can point to? Thanks, AWK Andrew Kirkpatrick Group Product Manager, Accessibility Adobe akirkpat@adobe.com http://twitter.com/awkawk On 8/3/17, 15:33, "Patrick H. Lauke" <redux@splintered.co.uk> wrote: >On 03/08/2017 19:45, White, Jason J wrote: >> I think Andrew’s suggested formulations are moving in the right >> direction so far as clarifying the idea is concerned. Obviously, >> restricting the available input modalities is not a good idea. On the >> other hand, I don’t know how Web content can fail to satisfy this, in >> practical terms, or how serious the accessibility issues are that result >> if it does. In particular, surely most of the issues lie at the user >> agent or operating system level. > >Classic example: a page sniffs to see if Touch Events are present, and >if so only hooks up touch event listeners (rather than traditional >mouse, keyboard, generic `click` handlers, etc). > >This falls apart on devices like laptops/desktops with both touchscreen >AND traditional keyboard/mouse (e.g. Surface), and in situations where a >nominally touch-only device like a phone or tablet has a paired keyboard >and/or mouse. > >The impact is that users are forced to just use the touchscreen. The >fact that the keyboard in these situations doesn't work can be filed as >a failure of 2.1.1, but forcing mouse users to use touchscreen falls >between the cracks of current WCAG at the moment. This would hopefully >fill that gap. > >P >-- >Patrick H. Lauke > >https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=www.splintered.co.uk&data=02%7C01%7C%7Ce06e8fcd3cd343b6752908d4daa6b43c%7Cfa7b1b5a7b34438794aed2c178decee1%7C0%7C0%7C636373856991854495&sdata=GHTXVrTDQiNLwRlmcWMj%2BhCB9CbwmrKqpaGE6RaZBYg%3D&reserved=0 | https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fpatrickhlauke&data=02%7C01%7C%7Ce06e8fcd3cd343b6752908d4daa6b43c%7Cfa7b1b5a7b34438794aed2c178decee1%7C0%7C0%7C636373856991854495&sdata=06gZbHYcU%2BEHdvMX7xkxpIc7LseILkQlGp5dGameFSg%3D&reserved=0 >https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fflickr.com%2Fphotos%2Fredux%2F&data=02%7C01%7C%7Ce06e8fcd3cd343b6752908d4daa6b43c%7Cfa7b1b5a7b34438794aed2c178decee1%7C0%7C0%7C636373856991854495&sdata=r2mLj7CZs3IGGK6e7nlysJ%2Fsgy0%2BkUkkWP0B9FZPQCA%3D&reserved=0 | https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fredux.deviantart.com&data=02%7C01%7C%7Ce06e8fcd3cd343b6752908d4daa6b43c%7Cfa7b1b5a7b34438794aed2c178decee1%7C0%7C0%7C636373856991854495&sdata=oEF9sfKBjk1%2FLO2oiudbiu%2F6XJ7EpONLOti4QJXpv8o%3D&reserved=0 >twitter: @patrick_h_lauke | skype: patrick_h_lauke >
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