Re: ISSUE-636 CTION-1398 Provide spec. text for aria-roledescription from Steve Faulkner on 2014-04-01 (public-pfwg@w3.org from April 2014)

From: Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 06:51:15 +0100
To: James Craig <jcraig@apple.com>
Cc: Shane McCarron <shane@aptest.com>, Richard Schwerdtfeger <schwer@us.ibm.com>, "W3C WAI Protocols & Formats" <public-pfwg@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CA+ri+VmbVLTiMij2KUa0oyPqtNJKtVPiH7C8a7H0xOT39po9Cw@mail.gmail.com>

On 1 April 2014 03:28, James Craig <jcraig@apple.com> wrote:

> At least two platform APIs already support this feature: AX API as
> AXRoleDescription and MSAA/UIA as localizedControlType.

I believe there is a vast difference between the relatively controlled
environment of browser implementations and allowing any author to
effectively replace the limited set of roles with any string they like.

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Regards

SteveF
HTML 5.1 <http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/>

Received on Tuesday, 1 April 2014 05:52:23 UTC