Re: Haptics CSS extension proposal

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