[webkit-dev] Feature Announcement: IndieUI: Events

[UdayKiran Reddy]

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=111446


On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 6:07 PM, James Robinson <jamesr at google.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 9:11 AM, Chris Fleizach <cfleizach at apple.com>wrote:
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>> Hello,
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>> I'm planning on implementing the IndieUI Events 1.0 W3C spec
>> https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/IndieUI/raw-file/default/src/indie-ui-events.html
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>> This feature's primary goal is to allow assistive technologies (like a
>> Screen reader) a way to control certain events that normally rely on a
>> standard device, but it's abstract enough that it will be useful in other
>> contexts.
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>> Example: The escape key on a keyboard might be used to dismiss a dialog,
>> but an assistive technology might not be able to press the escape key.
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>> The spec's introduction states:
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>> IndieUI: Events 1.0 is an abstraction between physical, device-specific
>> user interaction events and inferred user intent such as scrolling or
>> changing values. This provides an intermediate layer between device- and
>> modality-specific user interaction events, and the basic user interface
>> functionality used by web applications. IndieUI: Events focuses on granular
>> user interface interactions such as scrolling the view, canceling an
>> action, changing the value of a user input widget, selecting a range,
>> placing focus on an object, etc. Implementing platforms will combine
>> modality-specific user input, user idiosyncratic heuristics to determine
>> the specific corresponding Indie UI event, and send that to the web
>> application in addition to the modality-specific input such as mouse or
>> keyboard events, should applications wish to process it.
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>> The WebKit bug can be found here
>> https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=111446<https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106742>
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> This bug appears to be a closed issue about speech synthesis, not IndieUI.
>  Do you have a link to the IndieUI tracking bug?  Thanks!
>
> - James
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>> The feature flag I plan on using is
>> INDIEUI_EVENTS
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>> Let me know if you have any questions.
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>> Thanks
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