Re: Mac mapping accessible role description of contentinfo

Hi Andi, as a follow up to this on James' advice I filed a bug against
webkit and the bug has been processed
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78967

the AXDescription for  AXLandmarkContentInfo has been changed from
"content" to "content information"

do you need me to file comment on the UIA doc?


regards
steve

On 17 February 2012 18:00, Andi Snow-Weaver <andisnow@us.ibm.com> wrote:

> Steve,
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> I don't see a response from James on the mailing list. So that this
> doesn't get lost, would you mind filing a public comment on the UAIG?
>
> Andi
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> AM---Hi all, The AXRoleDescription for contentinfo seems a bit]Steve
> Faulkner ---01/29/2012 10:55:37 AM---Hi all, The AXRoleDescription for
> contentinfo seems a bit useless in the UA
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> From: Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
> To: W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>
> Cc: James Craig <jcraig@apple.com>, Andi Snow-Weaver/Austin/IBM@IBMUS
> Date: 01/29/2012 10:55 AM
> Subject: Mac mapping accessible role description of contentinfo
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> Hi all,
>
> The AXRoleDescription for contentinfo seems a bit useless in the UA
> implementation guide (and also implemented in webkit) given that  the "User
> agent should return a user-presentable, localized string value for the
> AXRoleDescription."
>
> It is simply 'content' which could refer to anything. it is not
> descriptive or indicative of what the contentinfo landmark role is supposed
> to represent:
>
> "A large perceivable region that contains information about the parent
> document.
>
> Examples of information included in this region of the page are copyrights
> and links to privacy statements." [1]
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> Any ideas about why this generic term is used for or is it a bug?
>
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> [1] *http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/roles#contentinfo*<http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/roles#contentinfo>
> [2] *http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-implementation/#ftn.note1*<http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-implementation/#ftn.note1>
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