Re: Agenda: August 27, 2015 WAI-PF ARIA Caucus (Correction I am still chairing this week)

On Mon, 31 Aug 2015 22:35:13 +0200, James Craig <jcraig@apple.com> wrote:

> Is there a real-world use case that does this? It seems like a pretty  
> complicated example to discuss as a theoretical problem.
>
> For example, what's the real-world need to focus a row group?

What about a table column?

cheers

> James
>
>
>> On Aug 26, 2015, at 9:02 AM, Joseph Scheuhammer <clown@alum.mit.edu>  
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi James,
>>
>> On 2015-08-25 12:40 PM, Richard Schwerdtfeger wrote:
>>>
>>> *Agenda: August 27, 2015 WAI-PF ARIA Caucus*
>>> ...
>>>
>>>    6. Action 1578 Discuss Issue 700 with the Working group (Should
>>>    rowgroup, tbody, and thead have any role mapping in AAPIs? should
>>>    there be an accessible object?
>>>    or, should it be a generic object? (Rich)
>>>      o I believe we discussed this and we made the "group" role the
>>>        generic role. This would be consistent with IE and Safari
>>>        mappings. Shouldn't this be closed?
>>>      o _https://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/Group/track/issues/700_
>>>      o _https://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/Group/track/actions/1578_
>>>
>>
>>
>> Rich notes above, "I believe we discussed this and we made the 'group'  
>> role the generic role".  I can confirm that the AAPI group decided to  
>> change the mappings for role="rowgroup" to a generic group-like role  
>> for the various platforms [1].  The reason is that authors can create a  
>> grid with rowgroup elements that are focusable and interactive (e.g.,  
>> respond to clicks) [2].
>>
>> However, the statement, "This would be consistent with IE and Safari  
>> mappings" is not correct with respect to Safari.  The current AXAPI  
>> mapping for rowgroup is "Not mapped".  There is a webkit bug in this  
>> regard [3].  What is the current thinking regarding AXAPI's mapping of  
>> the rowgroup role?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> [1] http://w3c.github.io/aria/core-aam/core-aam.html#role-map-rowgroup
>> [2] http://clown.idrc.ocad.ca/Fluid/aria/FocusableRowGroup.html
>> [3] https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=146239
>>
>> --
>> ;;;;joseph.
>>
>> 'Array(16).join("wat" - 1) + " Batman!"'
>>           - G. Bernhardt -
>>
>
>


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