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Consider Spec warning re: Detectability of Assistive Technology #6533

Open cookiecrook opened 3 years ago

cookiecrook commented 3 years ago

PING reviewed several accessibility specs for AT Detection risk, but the main heuristic detection problems, as outlined in Web Platform Design Principles Issue #293 are differences in event objects. Since the PING is filing issues on low-risk accessibility specs, this should be considered in the higher-risk HTML spec, too.

annevk commented 3 years ago

We have a per-feature tracking vector indicator that's documented at https://infra.spec.whatwg.org/#privacy. It would make sense to me to cover input modality there as well.

I suspect https://w3c.github.io/uievents/ might also need to call this out.

Taking a step back, some of the suggestions you have in that post there with regards to what AT could do kind of calls for documenting AT more formally and defining how certain operations are to be done. Without that kind of formalized description it might be rather hard to get to the root of this.