Re: Opinions on accessible time formatting

Have filed a bug on Firefox, to see if the idea has any legs

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1095927

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SteveF
HTML 5.1 <http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/>

On 8 November 2014 18:56, Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On 8 November 2014 17:45, John Foliot <john@foliot.ca> wrote:
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>> Not the biggest problem to solve, but it also appears that a solution is
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>> hand. So, can we get screen readers to do something useful with HTML5's
>> @datetime? Who wants to file bugs?
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> I would suggest that browser bugs be filed to
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> 1. expose the the element name as a role=time property
> 2. expose datetime attribute as a property in accessibility APis
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> this will provide a common interface for AT to access the semantics.
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> see Filing bugs http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/2014/06/filing-bugs/
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> note similar semantic information exposure has recently been implemented
> for the newer HTML5 input types such as URL/email etc in Firefox and chrome.
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> Regards
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> SteveF
> HTML 5.1 <http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/>
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