WHATWG/ARIA HR Issue from the APA call today

Hello all,

On the call today, we discussed an HTML issue about DOMStrings and ARIA
properties (<https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/10037>). We resolved for
me to open an issue in the ARIA repo to raise it with the ARIA WG.

Anne already did open such an issue (it was flagged in the issue we looked
at, but I didn't notice it at the time) and the ARIA issue reads more
clearly to me - it's about whether we could use actual numbers to represent
the numerical ARIA property values, when they're reflected (i.e.
accessed/queried via JS/DevTools, on real, in-memory, live, elements):
<https://github.com/w3c/aria/issues/1110>

What I think happened is that, as they reached to the correct (lower, more
general) level of the spec stack to solve the problem, the issue got
genericised a bit, and the one we looked at was therefore a little harder
for us to understand.

The good news is that there has been ongoing discussion on this, and the
ARIA WG even discussed this, if only briefly, last week:
<https://www.w3.org/2024/01/11-aria-minutes#t07>

So I don't think there's anything for us to do here - other than to decide
whether we want to continue tracking it, via our internal APA tracking issue
that the tooling created for us in order to express what sort of resolution
we're looking for (<https://github.com/w3c/a11y-review/issues/179>).

Any questions/concerns - please reply :-).

In the future we could just use those tracking issues for our internal
discussion (i.e. <https://github.com/w3c/a11y-review/issues/179> in this
case), rather than the list - a lot of stuff has moved to GitHub, and those
tracking issues are intended for APA to use to talk about the review
process. If you would prefer to work in that sort of asynchronous way,
please let us know. This does mean that it's incumbent on us to keep
checking for new issues, but we are working on making that more efficient,
and when we have got over our current backlog, it'll get much easier to
resolve these in meetings. Your thoughts very welcome, as ever!

best regards,


Matthew

Matthew Atkinson
Head of Web Standards
Samsung R&D Institute UK
Samsung Electronics
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Received on Wednesday, 17 January 2024 21:24:24 UTC