Open Bug 389237 (html5a11y) Opened 17 years ago Updated 1 month ago

[meta] HTML 5 accessibility

Categories

(Core :: Disability Access APIs, defect)

defect

Tracking

()

Future

People

(Reporter: aaronlev, Unassigned)

References

(Depends on 8 open bugs, Blocks 1 open bug, )

Details

(Keywords: access, meta)

This is a tracking bug for issues related to implementing next generation features for HTML.

This is targeted for after Gecko 1.9 / Firefox 3.
Alias: html5a11y
Keywords: meta
Depends on: 389238
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Mass un-assigning bugs assigned to Aaron.
Assignee: aaronleventhal → nobody
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A few thoughts about the general implementation of accessible widgets:

Let me use the date input as an example.

In what way does date widgets help me, being non disabled? By visualizing the calendar I can pick "Tuesday next week" without having to calculate the actual date.

Could a date widget be equally easy to use for a blind person, i.e. would it accept someone typing - or saying (speech recognition) - natural phrases like "the first Sunday in July" or "two days after Thanksgiving"?

Perhaps there is a better place to discuss this. Please advice if that is the case. I just wanted to broaden the thinking about what truly accessible HTML5 forms really mean.
"two days after birthday of my wife" ;) sounds fantastic and I find this can be really friendly. But I learn towards it shouldn't be part of core but it can be done as an extension.

Marco, what do you think?
Summary: Web Forms 2.0 / HTML 5 accessibility meta bug → [meta] HTML 5 accessibility
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Blocks: html-forms
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Severity: normal → S3
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