RE: comments

"Jim Allan" <[email protected]> Thu, 3 Jun 2010 08:58:44 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.org.w3c.appformats,gmane.org.w3c.accessibility.agents
Message-ID <[email protected]>
UAWG is having a meeting today. I don't anticipate any issues. Will send =
you something after the meeting.
Jim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
> Behalf Of Arthur Barstow
> Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 8:08 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]; Robin Berjon; [email protected]; UAWG list
> Subject: Re: comments
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> On 5/28/10 2:15 PM, ext Marcos Caceres wrote:
> > On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Robin Berjon<[email protected]>  =
wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Jim,
> >>
> >> your comments reach us right after the WG decided to take the
> >> specification to CR, but thankfully I was a bit slow with the =
editing
> >> so that we could take them into account :)
> >>
> >> On May 27, 2010, at 22:42 , Jim Allan wrote:
> >>
> >>> View-mode: fullscreen. It is not clear whether fullscreen includes =
a
> >>> full set of chrome, or includes no chrome.  You mention 'chrome' =
in
> >>> the 'windowed' and 'floating' viewmodes. For consistency, chrome
> >>> presence should be noted in fullscreen.
> >>>
> >> That's correct, I've now clarified this by adding a mention of =
chrome for
> both fullscreen and maximized.
> >>
> >>
> >>> It should be noted that the User Agent Accessibility Guidelines =
2.0
> >>> [1] has success criteria that allow the user to override author
> >>> settings for a variety of viewport view-modes including the
> >>> inclusion/exclusion of 'chrome.'
> >>>
> >> Yes, and that's fine. The idea here is that the UA would make a =
best effort
> at matching the intent in a way that makes sense rather than be ultra =
strict.
> For instance, if the app goes fullscreen but keeps a teeny bit of =
chrome (at
> user option or not) to make it easier to exit fullscreen, then =
matching the
> view-mode: fullscreen media query is quite clearly the right thing to =
do.
> >>
> >>
> >>> Please consider including a statement such as "The user agent =
*must*
> >>> display the view-modes in a manner that meets the accessibility
> >>> guidelines of UAAG20. "
> >>>
> >> As much as I'd like more UAs to support UAAG I don't think that =
this
> requirement is appropriate here. The VM specification defines a =
technology
> with a single purpose: "if the window in which the content is being =
rendered is
> like this, then apply these CSS style rules". It does *not* define how =
a UA
> ought to display an actual set of window states, it doesn't in fact =
even require
> UAs to support all the view modes. I'd expect that an application =
running on
> an iPhone would only support maximized and fullscreen =E2=80=94 if it =
applied
> different style rules for each, it would still be 100% conformant.
> >>
> >>
> > FWIW, I agree with Robin here.
> >
> I also agree with Robin and Marcos.
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> Jim, WAI UA community - please let us know (as soon as possible) =
whether or
> not Robin's response and edits adequately address your comments.
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> -Regards, Art Barstow
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