RE: 48-Hour Call for Consensus (CfC); Publish 1 ARIA FPWD & 2 ARIA Heartbeats

Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
>
> Where things get a bit less clear to me is the expected user experience
> for something like:
>
>     <$ELEMENT role="text">$SHORT_STRING</$ELEMENT>
>
> In that case, should $SHORT_STRING be treated by ATs as real,
> navigable, selectable text?
>
> A. Yes
> B. No
> C. Maybe
>
> My personal vote is for A, but we can see what others think.

Based upon what you have provided here, and fully acknowledging I am out of my 
environment, your logic case leads me to agree with your conclusion, and so 
FWIW I agree with "A"... except, I have a question. What would the 
user-experience be for something like this:

<$ELEMENT role="text"><img src="foobar.png" alt="foobar"></$ELEMENT> (where 
$ELEMENT could be one of <p>, <li>, <td>, etc.)? Is there an inheritance 
issue?

Note, if I am off in the weeds, then please disregard me - although I would 
ask Joanie (please) if you could respond off-list, as I am truly curious and 
don't honestly know. (Thanks)

Cheers!

JF

Received on Thursday, 4 December 2014 03:38:13 UTC