- From: Jim Allan <jimallan@tsbvi.edu>
- Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 09:46:00 -0500
- To: WAI-ua <w3c-wai-ua@w3.org>
any ideas, comments ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: John Foliot <jfoliot@stanford.edu> Date: Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 3:27 PM Subject: FW: [Bug 10873] Provide a method of explicitly setting a tooltip for an element To: jimallan@tsbvi.edu, Kelly Ford <Kelly.Ford@microsoft.com> Cc: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com> UAAG friends, Please note Maciej's comments below: > > --- Comment #6 from Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com> 2010-10-02 > > Seems to me UAAG 4.1.1 already applies, since it explicitly applies to > all > functionality. It would be helpful if the Implementing UAAG 2.0 draft > could > give examples of how to offer access to tooltips using the keyboard. It > seems > to me this is important for @title even if a new feature is also added. > > http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-IMPLEMENTING-UAAG20-20100617/#gl-keyboard- > access > > However, UAAG 4.1.1 does not strike me as "device agnostic". It > specifically > requires access via the keyboard. This is surely not appropriate for > devices > without a physical keyboard, for example the iPhone. iOS has been > praised for > its accessibility support, through voice and touch: > <http://behindthecurtain.us/2010/06/12/my-first-week-with-the-iphone/>. > Interaction using a virtual onscreen keyboard would be much worse. > > That being said, tooltips themselves do not work very well for any > users on > touchscreen devices, since there is no concept of hover. So it is > probably not > good for device-independence to further encourage their use. > The full discussion can also be found at: http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10873 -- Jim Allan, Accessibility Coordinator & Webmaster Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired 1100 W. 45th St., Austin, Texas 78756 voice 512.206.9315 fax: 512.206.9264 http://www.tsbvi.edu/ "We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us." McLuhan, 1964
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