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The problem with canvas, as correctly identified on the IE blog, is that no-one has yet worked out what to do with it from an accessibility perspective. Other b
by superdavid 16y ago
The problem with canvas, as correctly identified on the IE blog, is that no-one has yet worked out what to do with it from an accessibility perspective. Other browsers just report it to screen-readers (and other similar technologies) as a graphical block, whereas it obviously contains a lot more crucial information than that, and there's no standard for how that should be represented.
- wdewind 16y agoThis has always been Microsoft's excuse: there aren't clear standards, and it's definitely partially true. But they seem to be the only one of all the other substantial browsers (Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Opera) that just isn't even close. Why don't they just try what Firefox does? Make all our lives a little easier for once...
- superdavid 16y agoProbably because Mozilla and Opera aren't easy targets for lawsuits from disability groups and governments in the same way that Microsoft has a bullseye painted on it.
- hga 16y agoMaybe ... but they are very serious about accessibility, going back to at least when they did the NT rollout in San Francisco where they made sure to put in everyone's hands a short paper on the subject. If someone could point out where they've clearly used accessibility as an excuse vs. being truly serious about it I'd be interested.