Re: [Accessibility-ia2] Mapping of aria-errormessage for ATK/AT-SPI2 and IA2

+1 That is clean. 

Rich


Rich Schwerdtfeger




> On Apr 11, 2016, at 1:22 PM, Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs@igalia.com> wrote:
> 
> Hey again.
> 
> New proposal for the types:
> 
> ERROR_MESSAGE: Would go on the input which is invalid and point to the
> element with the statement of what is wrong.
> 
> ERROR_SOURCE: Would go on the element which contains the statement of
> what is wrong and point to the input which is invalid.
> 
> --joanie
> 
> On 04/11/2016 01:26 PM, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
>> Hey Jamie, all.
>> 
>> I don't believe we have a conclusion on this. So resuming the conversation.
>> 
>> If there's sufficient belief that errormessage is inherently different
>> and that new API is called for, what about a new relation type?
>> Personally, I am not jazzed by yet another relation type. But it is easy
>> enough to add. We could add ERROR_FOR (or ERROR_MESSAGE_FOR) and ...
>> what would the reciprocal relation be called?
>> 
>> --joanie
>> 
>> On 03/01/2016 06:33 PM, James Teh wrote:
>> 
>>> Everyone else is saying that errormessage is inherently different to
>>> description. If that really is how it's meant to be according to the
>>> ARIA spec (I disagree, but that's not relevant here), then mapping it to
>>> description (even with an attribute) is a big hack. You can't have it
>>> both ways; it's either just a specialisation of description or it's not.
>>> Several people now say it's not the former, so it must be the latter.
>>> And if it *is* the former, then it should be included as part of the
>>> description text as well.
>>> 
>>> FWIW, I don't like this whle thing at all, but it seems wrong to me that
>>> the ARIA spec says it's not at all a description and the a11y specs say
>>> it is. Personally, I think the ARIA spec *should* treat it as just an
>>> extension of description, but I've already made that point and it
>>> doesn't seem popular.
>>> 
>>> Jamie
>>> 
>> 
>> _______________________________________________
>> Accessibility-ia2 mailing list
>> Accessibility-ia2@lists.linuxfoundation.org
>> https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/accessibility-ia2
>> 
> 
>