[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 142059] AX: Provide API for assistive tech to ignore DOM key event handlers

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=142059

--- Comment #12 from Doug Russell <d_russell at apple.com> ---
(In reply to comment #11)
> (In reply to comment #0)
> > This can be fixed by exposing, via a new accessibility attribute, a way to
> > decide, for a given WebCore::Frame, to pre-empt DOM dispatch and instead let
> > accessibility caret browsing take place.
> 
> This makes me nervous. Are you planning to propose new web API that
> indicates to an web application when no key handlers are available?

If there should be an API to surface this behavior and what that API looks like will need to be informed by actual usage that hasn't happened yet, so I think that would be premature.

This is primarily (right now) about to deferring to users to decide how keyboard events are processed.

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