15212 2011-12-15 15:50:04 +0000 If a text selection is identified for a drag operation 2012-01-29 12:10:42 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG HTML5 spec unspecified PC Windows NT RESOLVED NEEDSINFO a11y P2 normal --- 1 jfoliot ian everett ian mike public-html-a11y public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 61604 0 jfoliot 2011-12-15 15:50:04 +0000 If a text selection is identified for a drag operation, is it identified as such in the DOM? If yes, how? (i.e. is there a 'getter' and 'setter'?) This is important for the AAPIs as normally individual text (as opposed to an element) is not tab focusable. 63247 1 ian 2012-01-28 22:03:02 +0000 EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html Status: Did Not Understand Request Change Description: no spec change Rationale: I don't understand. Could you elaborate? 63282 2 everett 2012-01-29 12:10:42 +0000 I believe that John is asking if there is a method of saving the state of a text selection in the DOM. This is related to ensuring that it is possible to make drag and drop of text selections accessible for users of assistive technology. Is there a way to mark, in the DOM, the beginning, end, and direction, of a text selection, or is this something that UAs are expected to figure out on their own? If UAs must do this on their own, then this can cause problems, as ATs will need to interface with the UAs methods for text selection, rather than interacting with the DOM.