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From: John Foliot
Date: Mar 26, 2011 1:51PM

And we must not forget implementation in other browsers. While IE today deserves mention for being "on it", there *are* other browsers that need to at least catch up to IE, not to mention also supporting the solutions currently being sought for the issues Steve described.

JF

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Steve Faulkner < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

>As was pointed out previously, a navigable canvas sub-DOM is only a partial solution.
>
>Provision of a focus ring on the canvas whose co-ordinates are programmatically exposed so that AT such as screen magnifiers can correctly convey current focus on areas of a canvas.
>
>Ditto for caret
>
>Also provision of a native method to pass events fired on areas of the canvas to elements in the sub-DOM.
>
>Regards
>Stevef
>
>Sent from my iPhone
>
>On 26 Mar 2011, at 18:44, paniz alipour < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> As I read this link,It seems that the problem of canvas
>> accessibility(fallback content) has been solved:
>>
>> The recently released Internet Explorer 9 beta implements the HTML5
>> specification’scanvas element fallback concept. This means that the content
>> inside a canvas elements start and end tags is exposed to assistive
>> technology users even when the browser supports canvas. It also means that
>> any interactive elements, inside a canvas elements start and end tags such
>> as links or form controls will be included in a documents default tab order
>> even when the browser supports canvas.
>>
>> Also the problem of focusing on elements,
>>
>> Now which problem exists and not solved?
>> --
>> Paniz Alipour
>>