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Bug 27086 - HTML to Platform Accessibility APIs should include iOS and Android mappings
Summary: HTML to Platform Accessibility APIs should include iOS and Android mappings
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML a11y APIs (editor: Steve Faulkner, Cynthia Shelly) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC All
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: steve faulkner
QA Contact: HTML a11y API spec bugbot
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Reported: 2014-10-16 15:51 UTC by Dominic Mazzoni
Modified: 2014-10-16 15:51 UTC (History)
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Description Dominic Mazzoni 2014-10-16 15:51:48 UTC 
A larger share of web usage is on mobile, and in addition to use of mobile web browsers, many mobile apps use web views to implement part of their interface. We should include iOS and Android mappings for all HTML elements too.

On iOS, Apple's WebKit implementation is the only one allowed to display web content - alternative web browsers based on a different engine are not currently allowed. Still, I think it'd be useful to spec for several reasons:

* To help catch bugs in Apple's implementation
* To clarify the expected mappings and behavior for HTML authors, especially app authors who need native content and web content to interoperate
* In case Apple relaxes the rules in the future and allows alternative web implementations