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<trackbot> Date: 04 April 2011
<scribe> meeting: W3C HTML Canvas Accessibility Call
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-canvas-api/2011AprJun/0005.html
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phone died atain
again
just a sec
getting a different phone
chuck: Think Ian might try to
make this a version 2.0
... if you look at the source code there is a lot of - save
this for the next version
rich: we can't wait until a new version
chuck: I ran the font metrics by and although it is simple source code we need to wait for people to catch up.
rich: I think he is spread too thin
chuck: same as doug
rich: I understand
chuck: I have not seen any other
developer feedback
... no objections. just kicking it around
... Oliver did have an objection to a retained graphics
API
... Oliver won't address me directly
... the 2 developers who did respond are not willing to have a
communication with me.
rich: probably because of IP.
chuck: Oliver argued with me over text support in WhatWG
rich: was anything discussed on WhatWG?
chuck: no, not on the canvas api specifically for clickable regions
<Downchuck> public-webapps
chuck: I started taking things to public web apps as is easier to work
rich: so, I need to poke Ian to
keep the discussion going.
... the "vizio like" example I provided showed how serious the
problem is where the author had to create separate clickable
drawing objects for each flow chart object
chuck: I thought up CSS pointers
to improve the practice.
... they are working find but more complex applications where
this gets very expensive
rich: just an observation that when you have a complex widget that requires you to enter text you run into problems.
chuck: take for example a 7X7
grid of images and this is where canvas excels over
canvas
... you saw how Ian did not object to the caret API
rich: yes, as he established precedence for a caret himself
<Downchuck> css pointer-events
chuck: the css pointer event
attribute is such where we should enable this with canvas. This
came from SVG. CSS pointer events is such that the object is
over a specific area. ... this is without the stroke
option
... canvas has stroke text and stroke. it may be possible to
track that. That could be useful in the long term
... it is actually practical to expose the current path.
<scribe> scribe: rich
chuck: it is possible to get the
path I just set.
... you get get this to a DOM string
... ATs will start working with SVG and the path can be exposed
through the DOM. This will move things forward for
accessibility. We are talking about 20 lines of javascript to
get the path from SVG in the form of a DOM string. This would
form the bounding box. So, we start reusing the most powerful
part of the SVG spec.
<Downchuck> Looks like "M10 10 L10 20z"
chuck: this is good for any solution.
rich: are those coodinates relative to the object or screen?
chuck: svg object
http://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/40318/issue-131-objection-poll/results
Rich: Edward was upset that canDrawCustom
Chuck: this is more of an issue
for css than canvas
... frank responded
... we could force those issues on CSS
rich: the user will peaved if his settings are not honored.
chuck: we could address both of
those objections. They are something that should be solved in
CSS.
... caret is not really addressed in CSS and neither is focus
ring
... some have said that overspecification can be
anti-competitive
rich: have any of these made any progress
chuck: no
http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=11328
http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=11329
http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=11342
http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=12214
chuck: I still need to get
something fixed on some of these bugs but nothing has happened
yet.
... I like using the SVG technique for grabbing the draw path
into a DOMString and will continue to push that for development
purpsoses.
rich: I want to wrap up canvas and start work on SVG accessibility
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