[whatwg] Accessibility for Drag and Drop

[Ian Hickson]

On Mon, 3 Aug 2009, Aron Spohr wrote:
>
> It's the same case here. Just like with "'a' elements that have an href 
> attribute" we should also add "elements that have a draggable attribute 
> set to true" to the list of elements that "should be made focusable by 
> the user agent" at the bottom of section 7.5.1 of the spec. 

Fair enough. Added.


> Btw. there is no information on what criteria the qualification is made 
> for the elements in that "should" list in the spec. Maybe that should be 
> added as well.

I don't know what the qualifications would be. That's why it's a "should" 
and not a "must" with explicit exceptions.


> > The user agent can actually find where drops can occur by just acting 
> > as if the user had tried to drop everywhere. I'm not really sure how 
> > we could make an attribute work for this, since the model allows any 
> > element to be a drop target already.
>
> Fair enough. I thought it might come in handy some day to identify both 
> draggable elements as well as elements that can "receive" drops without 
> the use of scripting. E.g. in a parser or for search spiders to creater 
> indexes for that faster...

I don't disagree in principle, I just don't see how it could work given 
the model we have.

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