Re: WebKit and GNOME

[David Bolter <david bolter utoronto ca>]

Hi Maciej,

Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
> On Apr 1, 2008, at 3:44 PM, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
>
> > On Apr 1, 2008, at 12:13 PM, David Bolter wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Maciej,
> > >
> > > Thanks very much for providing this information. I have a brief
> > > comment about your accessibility section below:
> > >
> > >
> > > This wording "Sometimes ARIA is mentioned in the context of
> > > accessibility - this is an interesting technology for future web
> > > apps" doesn't seem quite right to me. ARIA enabled browsers such as
> > > Firefox provide access to ARIA enabled DHTML applications today.
> > > Opera and IE8 are adding support today. Google is putting ARIA into
> > > its web applications.
> >
> > So far as I know, there isn't any major web app yet that is already
> > using ARIA. I would appreciate correction on this front if I have
> > missed anything.
>
> By the way, just to be clear, I do not mean to imply that ARIA is not 
> an important technology, or that it is "far future". Just that, in my 
> estimation, basic accessibility integration is much more beneficial to 
> users, in the short to medium term. (ARIA will probably be quite 
> feasible to implement in a cross-platform way once the basic 
> accessibility code is cross-platform.)

Yes my original reply got trimmed a bit so I'll paste in the missing 
part again: "I do however agree that addressing the cross platform 
accessibility strategy in WebKit should come first and wish WebKit the 
best in this endeavor."

Good luck, and I really hope the WebKit accessibility person(s) can take 
advantage of the help the GNOME and Mozilla communities can provide in 
making sure that cross platform WebKit accessibility can fly.

cheers,
David
> It is up to the GNOME project of course whether you will attach any 
> specific feature requirements to accepting WebKit as an external 
> dependency.
>
> Regards,
> Maciej