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From: Rakesh P
Date: Mar 12, 2017 10:47PM

All,


Thanks for your inputs. Finally I am able to publish the article on
Keyboard interaction for disabled elements. Here is the blog post.
http://www.maxability.co.in/2017/03/keyboard-interaction-for-disabled-elements/


On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 6:53 PM, Rakesh P < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> Yes Joel, I agree with you. I hope this will be raised in LV Task Force
> and addressed in WCAG 2.1 or WCAG 3.0
>
> On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 3:16 AM, J Isaac < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
>> A question has been tugging at me while I've been reading this thread.
>>
>> Screen reader users are clearly disadvantaged if disabled elements are
>> not marked up sufficiently, but there seems to be a lot of support in WCAG.
>>
>> WCAG 2.0 treats disabled elements as incidental in terms of color
>> contrast.
>>
>> How do you support low vision users that are not covered but may be
>> similarly disadvantaged?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> == Joel Isaac
>>