Hi Mark, Not the same. purpose is just the description. When providing the information to an assistive technology we can enumerate the named actions.
Rich Rich Schwerdtfeger Distinguished Engineer, SWG Accessibility Architect/Strategist Chair, IBM Accessibility Architecture Review Board blog: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/schwer Mark Birbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED] ort.net> To Richard 11/11/2007 03:26 Schwerdtfeger/Austin/[EMAIL PROTECTED] PM cc [EMAIL PROTECTED], [email protected] Subject Re: Comment on XML 2 Events Hi Rich, Are you sure it wasn't consciously dropped in favour of @role? It's the kind of thing we'd do. :) Regards, Mark -- Mark Birbeck, formsPlayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] | +44 (0) 20 7689 9232 http://www.formsPlayer.com | http://internet-apps.blogspot.com standards. innovation. On 9 Nov 2007, at 20:32, Richard Schwerdtfeger wrote: > The <purpose> element was dropped from actions in the XML Events 2 > specification. If you recall we had a purpose element as a child of > the old handler element which is now called <action>. We need > purpose to be a child of this. > > <purpose> would contain text describing the purpose of the action > which could be supported by a platform accessibility api to list > the actions that can beformed on a document object. > > I would request that this be added. > > Rich > > Rich Schwerdtfeger > Distinguished Engineer, SWG Accessibility Architect/Strategist > Chair, IBM Accessibility Architecture Review Board > blog: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/schwer >
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