Re: [Accessibility-ia2] Fwd: figure role backgrounds

2016-09-15 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 11:43 AM, Steve Faulkner wrote: > Provision of a figure role in Acc APIs is not duplicating anything in HTML. > It is about providing a cross technology identification of a [feature] that > does not currently have a specific definition. Why is

Re: [Accessibility-ia2] Fwd: figure role backgrounds

2016-09-15 Thread Steve Faulkner
> > I'm pretty sure Mozilla isn't interested in duplicating > semantics already implemented for HTML in SVG Provision of a figure role in Acc APIs is not duplicating anything in HTML. It is about providing a cross technology identification of a feataure that does not currently have a specific

Re: [Accessibility-ia2] Fwd: figure role backgrounds

2016-09-15 Thread Steve Faulkner
On 15 September 2016 at 16:39, Richard Schwerdtfeger wrote: > I don't see any advantages to adding a new IA2 role. The other platforms > are not doing it either. Apologies, I got lost in the discussion, Firefox already exposes it as an object xml-roles:figure which is

Re: [Accessibility-ia2] Fwd: figure role backgrounds

2016-09-15 Thread Marcos Caceres
On September 15, 2016 at 2:10:09 PM, Rich Schwerdtfeger (richsch...@gmail.com) wrote: > Alex, both Doug and Anna have expressed to you the opinion of the SVG working > group to not > have those elements in SVG. At this point the discussion on adding or using > them is not > productive. With all

Re: [Accessibility-ia2] Fwd: figure role backgrounds

2016-09-15 Thread Richard Schwerdtfeger
I don't see any advantages to adding a new IA2 role. The other platforms are not doing it either.   This is the current mapping we have in the core-aam: https://rawgit.com/w3c/aria/master/core-aam/core-aam.html#role-map-figure   Rich   Rich Schwerdtfeger     - Original message -From: Steve

Re: [Accessibility-ia2] Fwd: figure role backgrounds

2016-09-15 Thread Richard Schwerdtfeger
Currently, maps to the ARIA role="figure" accessibility mapping per the HTML-AAM. Applying the ARIA role to and SVG element, such as a , will do the same thing as .   I was in the process of working with Freedom Scientific and NVDA on their implementations when we got held up over the use of in

Re: [Accessibility-ia2] HTML placeholder attribute

2016-09-15 Thread Brett Lewis
This makes sense to me too. Brett Brett Lewis VFO | Software Engineer 11800 31st Court North, St. Petersburg, FL 33716 T 727-299-6270 ble...@vfo-group.com www.vfo-group.com From: Alexander Surkov [mailto:surkov.alexan...@gmail.com] Sent: