26419 2014-07-23 18:44:05 +0000 Allow browser and the rendered application to pass on information available within page elements 2016-05-05 15:01:42 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML.next default unspecified PC Windows NT RESOLVED WONTFIX P2 normal --- 1 devarshipant dave.null chaals mike robin public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 109226 0 devarshipant 2014-07-23 18:44:05 +0000 Idea is to allow browser and the rendered application to pass on information available within page elements. For example - <div> <H1 setvfocus = "true 00:02:00">This is read every 2 minutes</H1> </div> The aforementioned code may be flawed, but still will give this idea a shot and hope I am understood. The reason for allowing this natively within HTML 5 can be helpful as: 1. While the screen reader is voicing stuff at the bottom of the page, every two minutes the virtual focus would read the <H1> heading. 2. We don’t need to set any politeness levels like we do in aria. 3. Simplistic and straightforward to implement. 4. Only issue is whether this is something that can be implemented by API. The above example can be extended to help keyboard only users as well, especially when focus needs to be set on a text block or a page element. Something like - <div> <H1 setvfocus = "false 00:00:00">Receives keyboard focus immediately</H1> </div> would set focus on the heading block instantly, which can be helpful when users activate a link whose target points to a resource on the same page, or a new window / tab. -Devarshi 126348 1 chaals 2016-05-05 15:01:42 +0000 If this is a request for a generic ability to include information as a private-use attribute there is the data-* attribute space that can be used. To the extent that this bug constitutes a request for a new feature of HTML, please incubate it first. The current guidelines [1], rather than track such requests as bugs or issues, please create a proposal outlining the desired behavior, or at least a sketch of what is wanted (much of which is probably contained in this bug), and start the discussion/proposal in the WICG [2]. As your idea gains interest and momentum, it may be brought back into HTML through the Intent to Migrate process [3]. [1] https://github.com/w3c/html#contributing-to-this-repository [2] https://www.w3.org/community/wicg/ [3] https://wicg.github.io/admin/intent-to-migrate.html