[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 260641] AX: intent to remove non-standard role=text feature

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=260641

Yegor <yegor.jbanov at gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #4 from Yegor <yegor.jbanov at gmail.com> ---
Consider not removing role=text. When text is rendered into a 2d, WebGL, or WebGPU canvas a DOM overlay is necessary to communicate to a screen reader such as VoiceOver what text is rendered in the canvas. Currently, thanks to role=text in Safari there's a clean way to annotate it (and VoiceOver does a good job of reading it). Other browsers require hacks to make text work, such as artificially giving the text a different role (e.g. heading, or group, even when the text is neither).

I filed a feature request for Chromium to adopt role=text with more detail: https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40875151

I hope you reconsider and instead push for the standards committee to adopt the text role.

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