- From: Joseph Scheuhammer <clown@alum.mit.edu>
- Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 17:04:16 -0500
- To: Bryan Garaventa <bryan.garaventa@ssbbartgroup.com>, ARIA Working Group <public-aria@w3.org>
On 2016-11-18 7:50 PM, Bryan Garaventa wrote:
> Is aria-keyshortcuts supposed to only be used on focusable elements, or on any element? The spec is not clear on this.
>From the spec:
"Indicates keyboard shortcuts that an author has implemented to activate
or give focus to an element."
The second case, where the shortcut gives focus to an element, entails
that the element is focusable. An element cannot be focused if it is
not focusable.
The first case regarding activation is less clear. Your concern is, I
believe, discoverability: if the element with the key shortcut is not
focusable, users cannot navigate to it to find out what the short cut
is. But, there should be a better way than a tedious tab-navigation of
elements to find the keyboard shortcuts. As James N. proposed elsewhere
in this thread, since the shortcuts are exposed in the accessibiilty
tree, it can be searched to find and list them. It will take a while
for ATs to start doing that.
In the short term, it's good practice to make elements with
aria-keyshortcuts focusable for discoverability. In the long run, that
may not be necessary.
--
;;;;joseph.
'Die Wahrheit ist Irgendwo da Draußen. Wieder.'
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Received on Friday, 25 November 2016 22:04:55 UTC