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> This underlines my point, accessibility for the blind is something from the past. These days, nobody cares about us anymore. I care. And I'm trying to do som
by rikroots 6y ago
> This underlines my point, accessibility for the blind is something from the past. These days, nobody cares about us anymore.
I care. And I'm trying to do something about it - making HTML5 <canvas> elements more accessible to people such as yourself[1].
The key barrier I'm facing is getting people to take my efforts seriously. In particular, as a person who does not require (or prefer) assistive technologies to access the web, I have been making a lot of assumptions about what needs to be done to make canvas elements more accessible to end users. However I expect some of these assumptions are wrong. Or right - but implemented in a way that is not best practice or even very helpful.
What I need is feedback.
My latest attempt to get feedback was an email to the w3c-wai-ig mailing list[2]. I got one response back (by direct email) which led to a suggested improvement which I've ticketed up for action[3]. Any feedback that I can get from end users is not only welcome, it's essential!
I don't expect my canvas library to take over the world; I do hope that it can act as an example to other, more popular canvas libraries to prove that canvas elements can be made accessible: there's no excuse not to make them accessible.
[1] - Scrawl-canvas home page - https://scrawl-v8.rikweb.org.uk/ https://scrawl-v8.rikweb.org.uk/
[2] - Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Interest Group (IG) Discussion list - https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2020JulSep/0108.html https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2020JulSep/0...
[3] - Scrawl-canvas GitHub issue - https://github.com/KaliedaRik/Scrawl-canvas/issues/8 https://github.com/KaliedaRik/Scrawl-canvas/issues/8