Thanks! Glad to hear they made it in!

Cheers,
Silvia.

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On 10/10/2012, at 2:19 AM, Pete Brunet <[email protected]> wrote:

> Sylvia, After all our discussion we came to the consensus that no changes are 
> needed to IA2 with the exception of adding three action constants.  See 
> http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/accessibility-ia2/2011-July/001482.html
> 
> I'm glad you posted because I had forgotten to add those constants.
> 
> Pete
> 
> On 10/8/12 9:14 PM, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote:
>> 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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