- From: Jonathan Chetwynd <j.chetwynd@btinternet.com>
- Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 07:23:51 +0100
- To: "Doug Schepers" <doug@schepers.cc>
- Cc: <www-svg@w3.org>
Doug, Please could you consider not replying to emails that contain the keyword 'accessibility' You've suggested offline that you 'haven't the time' to explore accessibility issues. Anyone wishing to make helpful comments on accessibility needs at least a desire to understand the issues. regards Jonathan Chetwynd http://www.peepo.co.uk "It's easy to use" irc://freenode/accessibility On 12 Oct 2004, at 22:30, Doug Schepers wrote: Hi, Jonathan- I don't believe that it's appropriate for "mouse keys" to be explicitly defined in SVG. However, I *do* think that it's appropriate to include a mechanism for directional navigation, and to define a method to map keys to activities. Given these two abilities, I think that you would have the building blocks for such accessibility, and authors could then take matters into their own hands. Best practices and standardized accessibility specifications can allow the authors to produce variously accessible content. Regards- Doug Schepers doug . schepers @ vectoreal.com www.vectoreal.com "Move into the future..." Jonathan Chetwynd wrote: | | | There has been a brief discussion on IRC#SVG, which has led to not a | little confusion on my part at least. | | What plans are there to enable 'mouse keys' in SVG? | By 'mouse keys' I understand the accessibility alternatives to mouse | navigation, that use the keyboard. | (not just tabbing but) Moving the mouse around the screen, dragging | objects, shift+apple+click+drag(mac)and other mouse interactivity. | | Is the WG actively engaged in ensuring that this accessibility is | being integrated? | | Some people have expressed the view that this is an OS issue, nothing | to do with SVG, and that in the meantime it is up to individuals to | create scripts to cover these eventualities. | | regards | | Jonathan Chetwynd | http://www.peepo.co.uk "It's easy to use" | irc://freenode/accessibility | |
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