IRC log of html-a11y on 2011-02-28

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ok, trackbot; I see WAI_PFWG(A11Y)3:00PM scheduled to start in 2 minutes
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Meeting: HTML Accessibility Task Force Teleconference
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Date: 28 February 2011
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WAI_PFWG(A11Y)3:00PM has now started
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+Rich
20:01:12 [richardschwerdtfe]
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-canvas-api/2011JanMar/0075.html
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+Chuck_Pritchard
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scribe: Rich
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Meeting: HTML 5 Canvas Accessibility subteam meeting
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chair: Rich
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Topic: Bounding Rectangles Fallback content
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Rich: I have been thinking about coords
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Chuck: I have been using CSS to give it a rectangle but it works rather well
20:05:16 [richardschwerdtfe]
Chuck: The value of CSS is that if canvas could not be drawn it could be used
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Chuck: The SVG group is working on on accessibility as well
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Chuck: The best thing would be if the AT could send a request to the scripting environment
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Chuck: It sounds like focus ring would work but we are talking about access to things that do not have focus
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Rich: Correct. That is what AISquared wanted
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Chuck: I see what they want but I am trying to find an elegant way of doing it
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Chuck: it really should be callback based
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Chuck: There are ways for the AT to walk the DOM.
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Rich: moving focus to get things messes up the user experience
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Chuck: I think for zoomtext that there are features they can use to get what they want
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Chuck: This does not quite fix how canvas works
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Chuck: Instead of putting all the things in the DOM I add or remove things from the DOM.
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Rich: If you pull things out of the DOM this could mess up review mode
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Chuck: the situation where you treat all elements like a list it is more canvas like
20:12:00 [richardschwerdtfe]
Chuck: I can say I have all of these and I need to rotate them all
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Chuck: SVG benefits from being bound to the drawing surface
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Rich: HTML is the same way. We just are not bound.
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Rich: is there a way to create an object in canvas that could be bound to the corresponding fallback object.
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Chuck: there is only one object for the canvas
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Chuck: if you are looking at an entire haptic screen ...
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Chuck: a Braille devices is more text based
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Chuck: I could use some use cases.
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Chuck: At this point it is mostly a touch based screen
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Chuck: there is no real drawing object. There is just drawing primitives. There is no positioning information
20:18:41 [richardschwerdtfe]
Rich: I wonder what the value would be if we had a drawing object.
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Chuck: Has a create path item in Canvas API 2.0
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Rich: it might be a good thing to create a collection of drawing functions into an object and compute the bounding rectangle
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Chuck: Essentially, the SVG path provides a similar function
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Chuck: ARIA is rich enough. If you set an ARIA tag on an element then you do this ...
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Chuck: right now I am going through my mac. etc.
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Chuck: there is nothing in these ATs that require that yet
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Chuck: The text finder in Zoomtext is the closest. It uses focus
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Rich: I will look at SVG path
20:22:34 [richardschwerdtfe]
Chuck: OK
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Chuck: it is perfectly valid to use the SVG path.
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Topic: Caret Simulator
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Chuck: I have been working on it in darkroom
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Chuck: the drawfocus ring using divs does work
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Chuck: I put a div in a div in contenteditable and got the caret blinking
20:25:22 [richardschwerdtfe]
Chuck: I set the text color to be transparent. I used absolute positioning.
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Chuck: It worked
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Topic: Outstanding defects 11328, 11329, 11342
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Chuck: Nothing has happened yet
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Chuck: no success yet
20:27:32 [richardschwerdtfe]
Rich: I will look at SVG paths
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Chuck: I will modify darkroom demo to address moving your mouse over something to hear what is going on.
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RRSAgent, draft minutes
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I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2011/02/28-html-a11y-minutes.html richardschwerdtfe
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-Rich
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-Chuck_Pritchard
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WAI_PFWG(A11Y)3:00PM has ended
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Attendees were Rich, Chuck_Pritchard
20:35:38 [Downchuck]
might try to track down some bspin devs
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they weren't treated very well in mozilla for their use of canvas; but they have good input on things
20:37:00 [richardschwerdtfe]
zakim, bye
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RRSAgent, draft minutes
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I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2011/02/28-html-a11y-minutes.html richardschwerdtfe