Re: WAI ARIA on mobile

Yes. Details can be found here:

http://developer.apple.com/iPhone/library/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/iPhoneAccessibility/Accessibility_on_iPhone/Accessibility_on_iPhone.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40008785-CH100-SW2

CB

David Poehlman wrote:
> The Iphone sdk includes an accessibility api.
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> On Jul 24, 2009, at 5:44 PM, Victor Tsaran wrote:
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> Hi Chris,
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> Thanks for the reference link  -- very helpful.
>
> We are still left with a basic problem that exists on mobile phones, 
> i.e. absence of an accessibility API. On the desktop we have the 
> browser mapping ARIA roles and states to already-existing properties 
> in the underlying accessibility API. We do not have such luxury on 
> mobile phone, neither S60 nor WM platforms.
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> I am presuming that with the introduction of Voiceover screen reader 
> into IPhone 3GS, Apple accessibility API travelled with it as well. J
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> Thanks,
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> Victor
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> *From:* wai-xtech-request@w3.org [mailto:wai-xtech-request@w3.org] *On 
> Behalf Of *Chris Blouch
> *Sent:* Thursday, July 23, 2009 8:35 AM
> *To:* Victor Tsaran
> *Cc:* David Todd; wai-xtech@w3.org <mailto:wai-xtech@w3.org>
> *Subject:* Re: WAI ARIA on mobile
>
>  
>
> It would appear that ARIA attributes which define types of objects in 
> the page are the bulk of the ARIA support in Safari 4. List is here:
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> http://developer.apple.com/safari/library/documentation/AppleApplications/Reference/SafariHTMLRef/Articles/AccessibilityRoles.html
>
> So things like button, img, link, checkbox are supported. Live 
> regions, landmarks and other ARIA-specific constructs appear to be absent.
>
> CB
>
> Victor Tsaran wrote:
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> I believe Webkit exposes some ARIA roles but not too many, to my 
> knowledge.
>
> See http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog for more information.
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>  
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> Regards,
>
> Victor
>
>  
>
> *From:* wai-xtech-request@w3.org <mailto:wai-xtech-request@w3.org> 
> [mailto:wai-xtech-request@w3.org] *On Behalf Of *David Todd
> *Sent:* Wednesday, July 22, 2009 8:47 AM
> *To:* wai-xtech@w3.org <mailto:wai-xtech@w3.org>
> *Subject:* RE: WAI ARIA on mobile
>
>  
>
> Victor,
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> You mention that these platforms don't support ARIA landmarks.  I'm 
> guessing these platforms don't support ARIA at all yet.  Right?
>
> David Todd
> IBM Human Ability & Accessibility Center
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>
> wai-xtech-request@w3.org <mailto:wai-xtech-request@w3.org> wrote on 
> 07/21/2009 06:33:10 PM:
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> > [image removed]
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> > RE: WAI ARIA on mobile
> >
> > Victor Tsaran
> >
> > to:
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> > Boland Jr., Frederick E., w3c-wai-pf
> >
> > 07/21/2009 06:36 PM
> >
> > Sent by:
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> > wai-xtech-request@w3.org <mailto:wai-xtech-request@w3.org>
> >
> > Cc:
> >
> > wai-xtech
> >
> > Two things:
> > 1. S60 and Safari, which are the only two fully accessible browsers on
> > Nokia and IPhone platforms do not yet support ARIA landmarks because
> > they are not exposed by the Webkit, an engine that powers both browsers.
> > Neither IPhone's Voiceover nor Nokia's Talks and Mobilespeak understand
> > ARIA landmarks even if they were available.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Victor
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: wai-xtech-request@w3.org <mailto:wai-xtech-request@w3.org> 
> [mailto:wai-xtech-request@w3.org] On
> > Behalf Of Boland Jr., Frederick E.
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 1:11 PM
> > To: w3c-wai-pf@w3.org <mailto:w3c-wai-pf@w3.org>
> > Cc: wai-xtech@w3.org <mailto:wai-xtech@w3.org>
> > Subject: FW: WAI ARIA on mobile
> >
> > Fyi for consideration and discussion
> > Best, Tim Boland NIST
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org <mailto:w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org> 
> [mailto:w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org] On
> > Behalf Of Phil Archer
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 4:27 AM
> > To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org <mailto:w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
> > Cc: Shawn Henry; Henny Swan
> > Subject: WAI ARIA on mobile
> >
> > Greetings from Mobile Land...
> >
> > One of the participants in our Introduction to W3C Mobile Web Best
> > Practices course [1], Jeff Van Campen of the London Web Standards Group
> > [2], raised this issue on the discussion forum. As that forum isn't
> > public, I'm copying his mail here as I don't know the answer and I'm
> > interested to know!
> >
> > === Jeff's message begins===
> >
> > I was at WordCamp UK over the weekend (along with fellow Mobile Best
> > Practice students Laura Kalbag and Gicela Morales).
> >
> > As a part of a hacking session Laura, myself and a few other WordPresser
> > were looking at modifying Kubrick, the default WordPress theme, to work
> > in a mobile context.
> >
> > One of the issues we ran into is that Kubrick includes WAI-ARIA roles as
> > of WordPress 2.8.
> >
> > As we were working, we removed them, as this made validation easier.
> >
> > I understand that WAI-ARIA isn't supported on any mobile browsers yet,
> > but I'd like to add them to the code for two reasons:
> >
> > 1. So that the code is future proof
> > 2. So that they are discoverable by people examining the code, who may
> > not know about WAI-ARIA
> >
> > That brings me to two questions:
> >
> > 1. Does anyone know of any issues with WAI-ARIA roles in existing mobile
> > browsers?
> > 2. Is it likely that WAI-ARIA will be included as a module in a future
> > version of XHTML Basic?
> >
> > === ends ===
> >
> >
> > [1] http://www.w3.org/2009/03/mobitrain_course_description.html
> > [2] http://londonwebstandards.org/
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> >
> > Phil Archer
> > W3C Mobile Web Initiative
> > http://www.w3.org/Mobile
> >
> > http://philarcher.org
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