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On Behalf Of Alexander Surkov
Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 12:51 AM
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Subject: [Accessibility-ia2] accessibility of HTML5 input controls
Hi.
HTML5 introduces several new types of input
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Subject: [Accessibility-ia2] accessibility of HTML5 input controls
Hi.
HTML5 introduces several new types of input controls like phone
number, url, search, email, dates and times fields. AFAIK most of new
controls doesn't have new UI however they are intended to represent
data
, 2010 3:51 AM
To: p...@a11ysoft.com
Cc: accessibility-...@lists.freestandards.org
Subject: [Accessibility-ia2] accessibility of HTML5 input controls
Hi.
HTML5 introduces several new types of input controls like phone number, url,
search, email, dates and times fields. AFAIK most of new controls
Hi Alex,
Do these controls actually look any different from a normal input
type=text? In my opinion, if the control doesn't look different
visually, there's probably no need for an AT to report it differently
either. I guess there's no harm in exposing it as an object attribute in
case an AT
Hi, James.
AFAIK UI of new controls is under discussion. I expect they might have
different styling, additional images, or more complex UI like in the
case of searchbox, it might have search and clear buttons. Also I
assume UI might be browser-dependent. But originally I was interested
if screen
Hi Jamie, all,
Could you imagine this input type information helping prediction based
alternative input technology such as speech input?
cheers,
David
On 14/04/10 6:58 AM, James Teh wrote:
Hi Alex,
Do these controls actually look any different from a normalinput
type=text? In my opinion, if
Subject: [Accessibility-ia2] accessibility of HTML5 input controls
Hi.
HTML5 introduces several new types of input controls like phone number, url,
search, email, dates and times fields. AFAIK most of new controls doesn't
have new UI however they are intended to represent data of certain types
Jamie,
I want to throw in that these form elements will have associated labels
(part of the markup) and an autocomplete feature which is quite different
than we would normally expect.
Rich Schwerdtfeger
CTO Accessibility Software Group
