- From: Helder Magalhães <helder.magalhaes@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 09:20:34 +0100
- To: ~:'' ??????????? <j.chetwynd@btinternet.com>
- Cc: www-svg <www-svg@w3.org>
(Note that I'm not CC'ing all of the mailing lists in the original message to avoid cross-posting and due to the unusually high number of addresses...) Hi Jonathan, > SVG: Accessible Forms > What action is being taken to develop an accessible input form** for SVG? Isn't this a reincarnation of a thread created about two weeks ago [1]? > can and will it be implemented by UA developers? I don't know about implementers/content authors position about this matter (the SVG WG has already stated that this is somehow off-scope [2]) but I'd question if demand for this kind of feature is relevant at the moment. I'd vote for UA developers' focus to be on improving current implementations: coverage of the SVG specification, integration with other supported technologies -- (X)HTML(5), audio and/or video integration (somehow also covered by HTML5), etc. -- and fixing issues. Widget/forms and other kinds of user input handling can already be done though available/well deployed technologies: (X)HTML(5), in a "foreignObject", or through scripting libraries (carto.net has a few neat examples [3], more libraries are available). Note that using SVG for such use cases hasn't been (at least up until now), seen as much valuable and/or might hard to implement: for example, editable text is only available in recent Opera releases (and in the moribund ASV6)... Of course trying to use implementations which don't support integration with other technologies/scripting support currently makes input handling pretty much impossible (?). But, for those cases (I can mostly think of hardware-limited devices such as mobile terminals), it would be pretty unlikely that one would integrate forms support into those anyway. I'd say that HTML, WML and other technologies (such as Java applets) are more appropriate for the task. Regards, Helder [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-svg/2009Aug/0033.html [2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-svg/2009Aug/0034.html [3] http://www.carto.net/papers/svg/samples/#iact
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