Did you check with Nuance? What appends if replacetext is removed? Even if Nuance has not implemented it for say FF has someone approached them? We can' t just be supporting vision impairments.
Sent from my iPad On Feb 4, 2013, at 9:35 PM, "Pete Brunet" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Rich, At this point, since we couldn't find consensus and since this > release was supposed to done last Fall and since I was informed that noone > has implemented or shown a need for the three clipboard operations, I'm > inclined to not hold up the release any further and handle this in a > follow-on release if a project comes along that needs clipboard functionality > and provides resource to drive the spec toward a well thought out definition > of the clipboard methods. > > Pete > > On 2/4/13 8:51 PM, Richard Schwerdtfeger wrote: >> Hi Pete, >> >> The reason for the editing functions was to allow a voice reco solution to >> select text, edit it, and perform clipboard operations for the mobility >> impaired. It is additional work to have a voice reco solution have to go >> through the additional work of doing the additional keyboard simulations for >> doing that function. >> >> So, these are single actions. AccessibleEditableText also allows you to >> replace text, and set attributes, which takes offsets and replacement >> text/attributes. Accessible actions are single action functions that don't >> take parameters. ReplaceText is not the same as pasting from the clipboard. >> It is really nice to have all the features in the same interface. Note: One >> could bind the single command functions (cut, copy, paste) to the same >> actions in accessible actions. >> >> The other problem you have with actions is where do you apply it. Do you >> know to apply it only to the document. If Editable text is applied to text >> content within the document then you should now where to find the interface. >> >> Rich >> >> >> Rich Schwerdtfeger >
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