Re: What is the current situation with ARIA and accordion?

Hi;

If you'll accept a buggy keynav example for the accordion component, check
out the following link - you may need to use the mouse or get lost visually
...:
   http://webdev2.sun.com/example/faces/accordion/a11yAccordion.jsp

btw - Sun was correct when the keysequence proposal was approved, now I'm a
free agent.

ej


On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 1:35 PM, Al Gilman <Alfred.S.Gilman@ieee.org> wrote:

>
> On 2 Sep 2008, at 7:19 PM, Victor Tsaran wrote:
>
>  Hello all,
>> I know that in early stages of ARIA there was a proposal for accordion.
>> Earl Johnson from Sun has written a "complete proposal" for accordion
>> http://dev.aol.com/dhtml_style_guide#accordion as part of the DHTML Style
>> Guide,. However, there are no ARIA roles and states that describe the actual
>> widget in all its incarnations, e.g. single panels, multiple expanded panels
>> etc. I understand that one of the suggestions is to use appropriate roles
>> and states for the job, e.g. menus, tab panels, treeviews etc. However, this
>> may not always be a desirable option, particularly for distributable
>> components.
>> What is the plan for accordions going forward?
>> Should we contribute our own findings and/or proposal for this widget?
>>
>
> There are serious problems with adding a special role for the accordion
> widget.
> The accessibility APIs and assistive technologies don't know this role at
> present.
>
> .. but we're (PFWG) weakening, and have decided to give it a second look.
>
> Can we have references to some live examples from the web?
>
> Worked examples illustrating a proposed design pattern for the best
> practices
> would be the ultimate; but for now just some examples that work with eyes
> and keyboard showing multi-selectability and some or all of Earl's
> keystroke
> functions.
>
> Al
>
>
>
>  Thanks,
>> Victor
>>
>>
>


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