On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 6:17 AM, Josh Grams <j...@qualdan.com> wrote:

> On 2013-11-01 10:37AM, Chris Warburton wrote:
> >My dislike of canvas is that it arrogantly presumes that a user agent
> >has a display to be formatted.
> >
> >I used to develop a CMS called ocPortal which got lots of praise from
> >its blind users.
>
> OK, now I'm completely lost.  Isn't canvas for primarily graphical
> applications (videogames, drawing stuff, etc.) where it would be
> impossible to make it usable for a blind person anyway?  I mean,
> sure, people will abuse it and use it for other things, but that's
> true of any technology; there's no way around that, is there?
>
> What am I missing?
>
> --Josh
>

Take it from a game developer - you're not missing anything.  Canvas is for
realtime raster graphics, that's it.  Bypassing the web's usual
structure/layout is its whole purpose.

-Tom
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