RE: Initial draft of aria-linktype

I'm thinking about a couple of different options for UIA. 

One would be to use the Annotations Pattern
Pattern: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/hh448769(v=vs.85).aspx
Types: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/hh448743(v=vs.85).aspx 

This is closely related to the annotations proposal Microsoft made in 2014 https://www.w3.org/2014/04/annotation/submissions/Microsoft_Position_Paper_on_Annotations.pdf

(I think there are more recent versions, but that's the one that I could find)

Another would be to create a Hyperlink Pattern, which would have properties of Target and Type, and could be applied to any Control Type.  Currently, we have a Link Control Type, which uses the Value Pattern to store the target. I've never found that to be a particularly elegant design.

-----Original Message-----
From: Gunderson, Jon R [mailto:jongund@illinois.edu] 
Sent: Friday, February 12, 2016 1:24 PM
To: Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs@igalia.com>; Joseph Scheuhammer <clown@alum.mit.edu>
Cc: ARIA Working Group <public-aria@w3.org>; public-dpub-accessibility@w3.org
Subject: RE: Initial draft of aria-linktype

How does aria-linktype map to the accessibility APIs.

Is it become part of the accessible name, or is it part of the accessible description, or something else?

Jon




-----Original Message-----
From: Joanmarie Diggs [mailto:jdiggs@igalia.com]
Sent: Friday, February 12, 2016 2:58 PM
To: Joseph Scheuhammer <clown@alum.mit.edu>
Cc: ARIA Working Group <public-aria@w3.org>; public-dpub-accessibility@w3.org
Subject: Re: Initial draft of aria-linktype

Hey Joseph.

On 02/12/2016 03:40 PM, Joseph Scheuhammer wrote:

> I suggest changing the used-in-roles characteristic to restrict its 
> use to elements with a link role.

Agreed. Missed C&P error. Done.

Thanks!
--joanie

Received on Saturday, 13 February 2016 02:50:18 UTC