On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 12:40 PM, James Teh <[email protected]> wrote: > On 7/07/2011 11:46 AM, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: >> I'm looking at aria-live mostly for >> instructional purposes rather than for actually using it directly, >> because I don't think it's possible to use it directly. > I should clarify. I don't mean aria-live on the HTML side. Rather, I > mean the way aria-live is exposed to ATs; i.e. an object gets marked as > live. > >> Is the waiting-requirement indeed a use case of aria-live? > Not of aria-live in HTML, no. However, I think we could generalise the > "live" mechanism to things other than aria-live. In this case, an object > would be marked as live but requiring notification/synchronisation. When > the AT sees this, it would know to notify the object when it is done > handling the live update.
I don't understand enough about it but it sounds like it could work. So it would be an object with the descriptive text marked as live and activated at the given entry time when the video reaches that entry time? That notification/synchronisation mechanism is indeed the crux, I think. Silvia. _______________________________________________ Accessibility-ia2 mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/accessibility-ia2
