Re: Using title for ARIA name is impractical!

I have attached a modified version Mozilla.org Listbox example which shows
the issue.

On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 1:02 PM, Srinivas Annam <annams@google.com> wrote:

> In my continuing series of ARIA discoveries :)
>
> The current recommendation requires the usage of title attribute to provide
> a name for widgets of the following roles: combobox, grid, group, img, list,
> listbox, menu, menubar, progressbar, radiogroup, slider, spinbutton,
> textbox, tree, treegrid.
>
> Now imagine a listbox or a tree with lot of visible child elements and that
> each of these widgets (lisbox and options) are being created using a div.
> The outerdiv for the listbox having it's role as "listbox" and each of the
> list items having a role of "option". Now, assume that the listbox has a
> title defined on it (so it could provide an acc name per current
> recommendation) like below:
>
> <div role="listbox" title="My Own Listbox"
> aria-activedescendant="listbox1-1">
>   <div role="option" id="listbox1-1" class="selected"
> aria-selected="true">item 1</div>
>   <div role="option" id="listbox1-2" >item 2</div>
>   <div role="option" id="listbox1-3" >item 3</div>
> </div>
>
> At this time you would notice that hovering over with mouse on anywhere
> over the listbox area (including where the individual items are shown) would
> show a tooltip with the title. This is coming in as a side effect of browser
> usage of title for the tooltip. Given this major UI implication, IMO, this
> makes the usage of title to get an acc name on the roles mentioned highly
> impractical. I would like to hear other thoughts or ideas. Or if someone
> knows a way of getting ARIA name without using a title.
>
> Thanks,
> Srinivas
>
> --
> Srinivas Annam
> Software Engineer, Accessibility
> Google, Inc.
> Cell: 408.898.4928
> Email: annams@google.com
>



-- 
Srinivas Annam
Software Engineer, Accessibility
Google, Inc.
Cell: 408.898.4928
Email: annams@google.com