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Re: Running ChromeVox as a library in a web page?

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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Aug 30, 2017 7:26PM

> absent something like this, how you keep moving forward in terms of UI patterns.

Ultimately we need a way to communicate the patterns a control supports, the actions associated with a control, and a method to activate those actions. Instead of solely relying on all sorts of keystrokes if there was a programmatic way to communicate this and perform the actions like those provided through the actions rotor on VoiceOver it would provide consistency and flexibility. Accessibility APIs like UIA support the above at some depth but the ARIA semantics still need to catch up as they are focused on roles and not patterns and there are not great ways of communicated in the DOM the different actions and perform those. Web accessibility will in time be moving into where we can access the accessibility API through JavaScript and these areas will be better supported. The challenge has been up to this point to get the assistive technology and user agents updated to support the current ARIA consistently -- which has taken years to get where we are today.

Jonathan

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