Re: aria-flowto changes user-agent behavior, which isn't the intended purpose of ARIA

But that could result in a different tab order and behavior when  
assistive technology is running than when it is not, or a different  
behavior between different types of AT with varying levels of support  
for aria-flowto, and it could potentially conflict with a host  
language feature (like nextfocus in XHTML 2). I'm still not sure this  
is a good idea.


On Dec 8, 2008, at 12:23 AM, Aaron M Leventhal wrote:

> I agree that this is wrong because it goes against the purpose of  
> ARIA, but I think it's just incorrectly worded. The text in the spec  
> should say something like "aria-flowto recommends a document reading  
> to assistive technologies".
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> - Aaron
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> From:	James Craig <jcraig@apple.com>
> To:	WAI XTech <wai-xtech@w3.org>
> Date:	12/08/2008 08:59 AM
> Subject:	aria-flowto changes user-agent behavior, which isn't the  
> intended purpose of ARIA
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> aria-flowto changes user agent behavior, which isn't the intended  
> purpose of ARIA.
> http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/aria/#aria-flowto
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> If ARIA really needs this, we should move it to section 6.2.3 and  
> make it a requirement of implementing host languages.
> http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/aria/#host_general_focus
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