- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 12:38:07 -0700
- To: "Belov, Charles" <Charles.Belov@sfmta.com>
- Cc: Daniel Glazman <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com>, www-style@w3.org, "Gronholm Kim.1 (Nokia-D/Tampere)" <kim.1.gronholm@nokia.com>, Arthur Barstow <art.barstow@nokia.com>, Lars Knoll <lars.knoll@nokia.com>, Ilkka Oksanen <Ilkka.Oksanen@nokia.com>, "Haverinen Henry (Nokia-D-Qt/Oslo)" <henry.haverinen@nokia.com>
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Belov, Charles <Charles.Belov@sfmta.com> wrote: >> Daniel Glazman wrote on Monday, June 14, 2010 1:22 AM >> Forwarding a message from Kom Grönholm (Nokia) that did not >> make it to the list. >> >> Tactile feedback is based on the sense of touch, for example >> vibrating the screen or giving a more realistic sense of a >> physical object when the user touches the UI. As the >> physical feel of an element can be considered a part of its >> style, we're proposing to extend CSS to allow assigning the >> tactile feedback style to web elements. According to our >> studies the most convenient and natural way to specify haptic >> feedback is CSS. We also considered implementing haptics for >> web using WAI-ARIA but came to the conclusion that haptics is >> not (just) an accessibility feature although it can be used >> for improving accessibility as well. > > This would imply a need to extend WCAG as well. Some people > are sensitive to vibrations and would need to be able to > specify something like "vibrate:none ! important" in their > personal style sheet. Or would this be handled > as a preference by the user agent? Presumably such people would not be using a device that communicates haptically, or would have that functionality turned off at the UA or device level. ~TJ
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