- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:24:42 -0800
- To: Richard Schwerdtfeger <schwer@us.ibm.com>
- CC: Aaron M Leventhal <aleventh@us.ibm.com>, Joseph Scheuhammer <clown@utoronto.ca>, wai-xtech@w3.org, wai-xtech-request@w3.org
Richard Schwerdtfeger wrote: > The AT needs to be able to know when parts of the document change to > support live regions as well. Yes, of course. That can happen through mutation events, or internal mutation notification mechanisms; the latter is done in Gecko. > There are platform accessibility API > that can be used to allow the AT to listen for these types of change > events and not necessarily by accessing the DOM. Indeed. I don't believe I ever implied that the AT needs to observe the DOM directly. In fact, I wasn't even talking about the AT at any point here. -Boris
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