Hi all,

just getting back to this thread - did we manage to add this
functionality to iAccessible2 1.3?

Also, I wonder if we just re-use the play() and pause() functionality
of the browser, whether we're going to cause triggering events for
these that we would rather not. E.g. let's say a developer attaches
the display of a custom message overlay to video.pause() which the
user has to acknowledge. We wouldn't want a blind person to have to
act on every single one of these just because they are using a
screenreader that supports live regions for audio descriptions.

Cheers,
Silvia.


On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 12:01 PM, James Teh <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 22/07/2011 11:32 AM, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote:
>> Do we need a state to indicate if this is actually the requested way
>> of dealing with over-long description cues? I mean: some users may
>> want the interface to wait until "presentationDone", but others may
>> want the video to interrupt the aria-live reading and keep the video
>> at real-time speed.
> If we did have such a state, what would set it? This would require the
> app (the browser) to know what the user preferred. There are two ways of
> doing this without the need for a new state:
> 1. The browser knows the user doesn't want the video to pause and resume
> due to descriptions, so it doesn't bother to set live:interactive or
> whatever we use; or
> 2. The AT knows the user doesn't want to pause/resume, so it just
> doesn't bother to open, signal completion or close the live region object.
>
>> It's interesting for me to see that we want to do text descriptions
>> actually with the aria-live feature rather than introduce another
>> feature that just behaves almost the same as aria-live. I'm happy if
>> that works out!
> I think it's important to separate aria-live from live regions as a
> general concept. Personally, I see them as separate (but related).
> aria-live is just one particular implementation or producer of live
> regions. Live regions could just as well be used by desktop applications
> that have nothing at all to do with the web (and thus ARIA).
>
> I think it makes sense to generalise concepts and extend existing
> features, rather than introducing entirely new ones that do very similar
> things. It makes the feature more flexible in the longrun, as well as
> making implementation simpler for everyone.
>
> Jamie
>
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