[rezonant]

> respective accessibility APIs that each platform exposes.

That's the problem, there isnt an accessibility API for the web, is there?

EDIT: At least not one that works without DOM

[mhoad]

Hence my timeline of a few years, right now browsers have coupled accessibility with the DOM but that is going to change.

[rezonant]

Well I do hope so. So far I'm unaware of any pending proposals in the standards tracks :-/