[macvoiceover] important:Fw: Review of HTML5 draft

From: "David Poehlman" <david.poehlman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 14:18:22 -0400
Hi all,

The below is the result as it stands of 4 years of development.  I thought 
I'd put it here so that folk who develop the web could have a look and 
comment as directed.  Discussion here of course would be helpful as it 
pertains to VoiceOver?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ian Hickson" <ian@xxxxxxxx>
To: <wai-xtech@xxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, August 04, 2008 6:54 AM
Subject: Review of HTML5 draft




Hi,

HTML5 has reached a pretty stable point, where most features have been
specified and the remaining work is mostly tidying up loose ends and
addressing the thousands of e-mails of feedback we have received over
the last four or so years.

I would very much appreciate it if people knowledgable in issues relating
to making Web pages usable for those with sensory and cognitive
disabilities and those with difficulties using conventional input methods
could review the HTML5 specification and let me know if there are any
important issues that need addressing.

HTML5 has a number of new features that are specifically designed to
address such concerns in as transparent a manner as possible, thus
hopefully making HTML5 documents usable to all without authors having to
do anything special. Such features include the new widgets like <input
type=date>, <input type=range>, <datagrid>, <progress>, <meter>, <bb>,
<video>, <audio>, list=" and <datalist>, <output>, <details>, <menu>,
<command>, irrelevant="", and others. We also have a number of new APIs
for which I would be interested in seeing closer review, e.g. the
drag-and-drop APIs, contentEditable, the text selection APIs, and so on.

These have been designed specifically with unusual input and output
mechanisms in mind, but obviously it's easy for mistakes to slide in
without us realising, despite our best efforts.

Any input you could have would be much appreciated. If possible, please
try to send feedback either by e-mail to whatwg@xxxxxxxxxx or
public-html@xxxxxx, or through bug reports at:
   http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/enter_bug.cgi?product=HTML%20WG

If you send e-mails, please try to keep each e-mail focused on one section
of the specification, rather than mixing feedback from multiple topics. If
you file bugs, please try to keep each bug report to one single issue per
report. This will help expedite responses.

Thanks in advance for any advice you may have,
-- 
Ian Hickson               U+1047E                )\._.,--....,'``.    fL
http://ln.hixie.ch/       U+263A                /,   _.. \   _\  ;`._ ,.
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