- From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:50:56 +0200
- To: joshue.oconnor@cfit.ie
- Cc: Steven Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>, HTMLWG WG <public-html@w3.org>, W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>
Joshue O Connor wrote: > This kind of thing seems to me a ridiculous level of complexity and a > retrograde step in web development. Rather than simply rejecting the idea outright, could you elaborate on specifically what was wrong with the techniques I described? Or, better yet, could you suggest a simpler approach that provides for such a wide range of accessibility issues, including keybaord navigation and various forms of assistive technoloy, while still working seamlessly alongside the existing mouse based interaction and providing a reasonable level of backwards compatibility? Ignoring the fact that this particular example is, as Maciej pointed out, probably better implemented using alternative techniques that don't involve canvas, the challenge I attempted to address was to make that particular use of canvas accessible in a way that retained the same functionality and support for the existing user interaction, using a backwards compatible technique that could conceivably be applied to other interactive uses of canvas as well. If there is something else that can achieve this, I would be very interested to know what. -- Lachlan Hunt - Opera Software http://lachy.id.au/ http://www.opera.com/
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