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From: Joshue O Connor
Date: Mar 25, 2011 3:09AM

Hi Paniz,

> I am researching about html5 canvas accessibility ,I want to know more
> information about it.
>
> Any body knows what's the status of canvas accessibility?

Please have a look at the following for more info [1].

If you wish to follow the issue (as it happens as such) have a look at
the minutes of <canvas> meetings. [2]

If that's too much, a doc that outlines some of the a11y issues with
<canvas> may help to explain things. [3]

This is really an issue in flux. It is nowhere near resolved (IMO).
There have been some interesting development such as IE 9 claiming
support for the canvas a11y, basically a navigable sub DOM that supports
fallback content nested inside the <canvas> element.

So in short, is <canvas> accessible? Not yet. Is there work being done
on this? Yes.

So should you now built stuff that you want to be accessible in
<canvas>? Nope.

HTH

Josh

[1]
http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/2010/09/html5-canvas-accessibility-in-internet-explorer-9/
[2] http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/HTML/wiki/Canvas/Meetings/Minutes
[3] http://www.w3.org/html/wg/wiki/AddedElementCanvas




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