system access
Wednesday, 18 November 2009
The @summary tag seems like a vital asset, and the contextual orientation features of VoiceOver on the iPhone point to the usefulness of this sort of tool. I am also interested in how the user gets the information. If the tag has been out of practice, how do audible output know where to find it? As a trainer of the Visually Impaired with technology, I need to frame when and how I would hear this information. Taking it a step further I would like to dream a little. Open-source collaboration is changing the world of accessibility. I would like to dream an element that could be authored by a page viewer who notices the tagging is not there. Allowing the wild to be brought up to date by concerned users. I'm thinking of a wiki esq element that could be updated when a company or author was negligent/ignorant of the need.
This is a comment on "The Future of @summary in HTML 5"