On 4/10/2014 11:17 PM, Kaleb Hornsby wrote:
I've been experimenting with aria-attributes in polymer element,s and
they seem to do OK. Eric, what have your experiences been with polymer
and WAI-ARIA?
I'm just getting started. It is difficult to find time because when you
are disabled, making a living is significantly harder than you think it
should be. I'm running at about 70% normal because I need to take time
to let my hands cool down and going "ow ow ow" tends to ruin your
concentration.
The only reason I'm describing my experience is because I have yet to
encounter developers have experienced this level of disability, or if
they have experienced it, developers who are not in denial about how bad
it is. Living this life is why I want to change it. I don't want anybody
else to suffer the same kind of experience.
If you don't mind, Kaleb, I work best through practical example. Let me
describe to you an editor and I would like to hear how can we make it
happen with polymer.
Imagine an editor which is just a text window. No menu items, no drop
downs nothing. It's just a window. You can dictate into the window/text
area and perform all of the usual nuance Select-and-Say type
operations.[1]. Data is saved automatically so that if the machine
crashes, the application dies, you don't lose your text. In fact, you
don't even need to exit the application when shutting down the machine.
The auto saving should be sufficient for preserving your text.
If associated with the file, every time the speech command that invokes
the editor with associate a file occurs, there is at most one copy of
the window with file. For example "add log entry" brings up the log file
for this month. I go do more work, and I say again "add log entry", the
existing window comes up to focus and I can dictate. by the way, a lot
of the calculations that go into specifying the log file name and things
of that nature are done within the speech user interfaced is implemented
by natlink.
The editor lets me query from natlink and retrieve text with and without
cursor information. I can also replace text and position the cursor
anywhere within the window.
So, how could one implement this with polymer?
--- eric
[1] we have some documentation from when Dragon Systems first released
natlink which helps us with this capability.
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