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Re: [aapi] ARIAAttrModified?

From: Joseph Scheuhammer <clown@utoronto.ca>
Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2009 17:51:20 -0500
Message-ID: <49B05768.80302@utoronto.ca>
To: Becky Gibson <Becky_Gibson@notesdev.ibm.com>
CC: "David Bolter <david.bolter" <david.bolter@utoronto.ca>, "wai-xtech@w3.org" <wai-xtech@w3.org>
Becky wrote:

> "focus the Country Column Header"
> "sort ascending"
>
> The following would happen in response to the above voice commands:   
> the column header labeled "Country" would be focused; then the sort 
> ascending action would be performed and the grid re-rendered;  then 
> focus would be put back into the column header.

Food for thought: is the "sort ascending action" accomplished by 
directly setting the aria-sort property, or by calling a grid function 
that (1) executes the sort, and (2) sets the aria-sort property as 
appropriate.  That is, the aria-sort property is possibly not directly 
manipulated by the voice command system.

Compare with keyboard-based sorting:  tab navigate to the column header, 
invoke a context menu, and choose the "sort ascending" menu item.  The 
keyboard based method obviously does not directly manipulate aria-sort.

-- 
;;;;joseph

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