- From: Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis <bhawkeslewis@googlemail.com>
- Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2012 19:15:56 +0100
- To: Ian Sharpe <isforums@manx.net>
- Cc: Ramón Corominas <listas@ramoncorominas.com>, WAI Interest Group <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Ian Sharpe <isforums@manx.net> wrote: > In particular, I am questioning the use of our limited time and resources > trying to work around issues arising from the use (abuse?) of what is > essentially a graphical element for user input when perfectly flexible > accessible alternatives exist. The alternatives aren't sufficiently flexible for what people want to do. So we have to work on either making those existing features (e.g. contenteditable) more flexible, or we have to work on bolt-on accessibility for canvas (e.g. hit regions), or we have to work on new features that are flexible *and* have built-in accessibility (e.g. web components). In practice, we are doing all three. We can't *just* sit on our hands and tell people to use the existing features that don't address what they want to do - because at web scale they will be used anyway. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
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