Re: ARIA and HTML document question about implicit headings

Implementations don't try to do that much verification of markup validity
-- that's mostly left to authoring tools.

Aaron

On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 2:25 PM Bryan Garaventa <
bryan.garaventa@levelaccess.com> wrote:

> I thought this only affected the mappings. For example a heading can have
> only one level in the accessibility tree, so only one would be announced
> regardless.
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> I just verified this using the following markup.
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> <h1 aria-level="3"> Test </h1>
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> All of the screen readers JAWS, NVDA, and iOS VoiceOver announce this as
> an H3 heading in Firefox, Chrome, and Safari.
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> Bryan Garaventa
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> Accessibility Fellow
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> Level Access, Inc.
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> Bryan.Garaventa@LevelAccess.com
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> 415.624.2709 <(415)%20624-2709> (o)
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> www.LevelAccess.com
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> *From:* Aaron Leventhal [mailto:aleventhal@google.com]
> *Sent:* Monday, August 14, 2017 11:05 AM
> *To:* Bryan Garaventa <bryan.garaventa@levelaccess.com>; ARIA Working
> Group <public-aria@w3.org>
> *Subject:* Re: ARIA and HTML document question about implicit headings
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> Hi Bryan, I think can answer this one.
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> The <h1> etc. elements already have a level, so aria-level would be a
> direct conflict. Why say the level twice?
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> However, a button (native or ARIA) has no way to say whether it's pressed,
> or pressable, or has a popup, without the aria-pressed/aria-haspopup
> attributes.
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> Aaron
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> On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 12:49 PM Bryan Garaventa <
> bryan.garaventa@levelaccess.com> wrote:
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> Hi,
> I noticed recently that according to the ARIA and HTML mapping tables, the
> use of aria-level is said to not be allowed on H1 through H6 elements, even
> though these implicitly map to role="heading".
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> Since supporting attributes like aria-pressed and aria-haspopup are
> accepted on other implicit elements like role="button", amongst other
> implicit role and attribute combinations, why is this one different?
>
> Bryan Garaventa
> Accessibility Fellow
> Level Access, Inc.
> Bryan.Garaventa@LevelAccess.com
> 415.624.2709 <(415)%20624-2709> (o)
> www.LevelAccess.com
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