Re: Issue-742: Proposal aria-destination

How is it different from accessible name? Can I have an example how
assistive technology will use it?


On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 5:39 PM, Richard Schwerdtfeger <schwer@us.ibm.com>
wrote:

> This is not a formal proposal but one that would seed a formal proposal if
> the group agrees. I would need to coordinate with coga and the aria-dpub
> folks. Normally I would push this to ARIA 2.0 but because we have two
> efforts wanting essentially the same thing and I don't want to have
> multiple roles for a link I believe this is a better approach.
>
> aria-destination - Provides the context of a link.
>
> This attribute provides contextual semantics for the destination of a link
> so that authors may use this information to drive a consistent user
> interface. Some assistive technologies may this information important to
> provide to assistive technologies.
>
> The following is a list of possible values that the destination could take
> on from the coga task force and I suggest we consider a subset of these:
>
>    - home
>    - contact us
>    - our phone
>    - our email
>    - site map
>    - help
>    - about us
>    - terms
>    - tools
>    - comment
>    - language (English)
>    - sign in
>    - sign up
>    - product
>    - services
>    - social (provide label - such as facebook twitter)
>    - post
>    - contactus
>    - Help
>    - Chat help
>
>
> This is based on this wiki:
> https://rawgit.com/w3c/coga/master/issue-papers/links-buttons.html
>
> I introduce this now as the dpub aria task force roles for different types
> of links which reflect the destination of the link provided. Since both
> task forces need a feature like this we should place an anhor inside ARIA
> 1.1 so that they mau build off it.
>
> The current Digital Publishing WAI-ARIA module (
> http://rawgit.com/w3c/aria/master/aria/dpub.html) has these roles:
>
> doc-biblioref: A reference to a bibliography entry.
> doc-glossref: A reference to a glossary definition
> doc-location: A link that allows the user to jump to a related location
> in the content (e.g., from a footnote to its reference, from an index entry
> to where the topic is discussed, or from a glossary definition to where the
> term is used).
> doc-noteref: A reference to a footnote, typically appearing as a
> superscripted number or symbol in the main body of text.
>
> I recommend these be additional tokenized values, without the doc-, for
> aria-destination and a subset of what coga would like for ARIA 1.1. The
> Coga task force can then expand on the values.
>
> example:
> style {
> a[a[aria-destination="glossref"] {
>     background-color: yellow;
>     border: 2px blue;
> }
> div[role="link"][aria-destination="glossref"] {
>     background-color: yellow;
>     border: 2px blue;
> }
>
> <a aria-destination="glossref" href="..." >discombobulated</a>
>
>
> Rich Schwerdtfeger
>
>