[whatwg] Outline style to use for drawSystemFocusRing

[Rik Cabanier]

Dominic,

it would be great if we could resolve this soon since I'm trying to land
this in mozilla and webkit.
I think the spec is good as-is, and Rich and Hixie (right?) believe so as
well.



On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 11:48 PM, Dominic Mazzoni <dmazzoni at google.com>wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 5:42 PM, Rik Cabanier <cabanier at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Where does it say in the spec that if you have assistive technology
>> enabled, focus rings should not be drawn?
>>
>
> if as a web author I call drawCustomFocusRing and it returns false, I'm
> not supposed to draw anything according to the spec. That's what doesn't
> make sense to me.
>
> It would take an element in fallback content as an argument. That would
>>> allow assistive technology to be notified.
>>>
>>
>> As Ian pointed out, the accessibility software could do that.
>>
>
> scrollPathIntoView can't be used to notify accessibility software of the
> focused object location as-is because it doesn't have an element to fire
> on, and it doesn't know if the scrolling is because of focus or not.
>
> If we added a canvas fallback element as a parameter to
> scrollPathIntoView, I don't think we'd need drawCustomFocusRing.
>
>