Re: Fw: Use of ARIA markup for rich text editing

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 10:35 PM, Richard Schwerdtfeger
<schwer@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> <mark aria-selected="true"></mark> would represent a collapsed selection and
> therefore a caret similar to the terminology used in webkit and Firefox.

a) Won't this require updates to WAI-ARIA too, since WAI-ARIA does not
define aria-selected to indicate a text selection or caret, or indeed
to have any meaning without reference to a "gridcell", "option",
"row", or "tab" role?

b) Can someone kindly explain what problem "aria-selected" is solving
here that the existing DOM selection querying and mutation APIs cannot
solve? You said before "to have a caret we would need to use either a
textfield or a contenteditable area". Why would this constraint be a
problem, given we're talking about a "canvas" sub-dom?

c) "Authors would be required to mark the areas accordingly." What
areas when what happens, precisely?

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Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Received on Wednesday, 15 December 2010 00:01:05 UTC