- From: Fred Esch <fesch@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Thu, 26 May 2016 08:35:56 -0400
- To: Matt King <a11ythinker@gmail.com>
- Cc: public-aria-admin@w3.org, "Accessible Rich Internet Applications Working Group" <public-aria@w3.org>
- Message-Id: <20160526130554.CDE6A112047@b01ledav004.gho.pok.ibm.com>
Matt,
Trees are the only structure we have for trees. Treegrids are tables with
twisties, not a tree. Here are some examples of treegrids (from googling
treegrid).
http://www.treegrid.com/Grid
http://dev.sencha.com/deploy/ext-4.0.1/examples/tree/treegrid.html
http://maxazan.github.io/jquery-treegrid/
https://dojotoolkit.org/reference-guide/1.10/dojox/grid/TreeGrid.html#dojox-grid-treegrid
If I need a tree of widgets (and I don't want them laid out like a table)
what do I use?
Regards,
Fred Esch
Watson, IBM, W3C
Accessibility
IBM Watson Watson Release Management and Quality
From: Matt King <a11ythinker@gmail.com>
To: "'Bryan Garaventa'" <bryan.garaventa@ssbbartgroup.com>, "'James
Nurthen'" <james.nurthen@oracle.com>,
<public-aria-admin@w3.org>
Cc: "'Rich Schwerdtfeger'" <richschwer@gmail.com>, Fred
Esch/Arlington/IBM@IBMUS
Date: 05/25/2016 09:54 PM
Subject: RE: 48 hour Call For Consensus regarding Resolutions from the
May 19, 2016 ARIA Working Group meeting
James, I tested a listbox with 2 options, each option containing a link, a
heading, a paragraph, and a toolbar with 2 buttons.
I tested in Firefox, IE, Chrome, and Safari with JAWS, NVDA, and VoiceOver.
We have about 80+% presentational implementation. The 20% that is not
presentational is a screen reader disaster. Test result details below.
No one should consider putting semantic elements inside options or
treeitems and expect them to be presented as anything other than text, even
if focus moves inside the option. And moving focus inside an option is an
author error because option is not a composite and the allowed content for
option is text.
By design, chilcren of options and treeitems are already presentational.
This is how ARIA 1.0 set them up. And, we should finish the job so we can
clean up the 20% mess.
The good news is, that if you do a 1/1 switch out to grid roles, it works
on all platforms in all browsers. Screen readers that do automatic mode
switching don’t yet switch modes exactly right all the time, but we can get
that fixed. So, we have a robust solution for the use cases that James and
Fred have raised.
In the long term, I would not support changing treeitem and option to
composites. That could really mess up their current use cases. If people
are somehow not satisfied with the grid approaches, which do work very
well, I would instead propose that we add listview and treeview roles that
have composite child elements. That way, the screen readers will be able to
render them in a manner completely different from listbox and tree-- more
like grid and treegrid.
Test Results:
Chrom/Mac/VO:
When reading, no semantics revealed. When interacting with the option, the
text is readable but it is stringified.
When tabbing to contained link and buttons: No semantics revealed.
Focusable elements are silent. The ffirst time focus enters the option, the
entire option is read instead of the label of the focused element. Current
focus reports the text of the option for all contained elements.
Safari/Mac/VO:
When reading, no semantics revealed. When interacting with the option, the
text is not present.
When tabbing to contained link and buttons: No semantics revealed.
Focusable elements are silent. The ffirst time focus enters the option, the
entire option is read instead of the label of the focused element. Current
focus reports the text of the option for all contained elements.
Chrome/Win/JAWS/NVDA:
When reading, no semantics revealed. Stringified text of the selected
option is revealed. Selected state is revealed.
When tabbing to contained link and buttons: No semantics revealed.
Focusable elements are silent. The ffirst time focus enters the option, the
entire option is read instead of the label of the focused element. Current
focus reports the text of the option for all contained elements.
Firefox/Win/JAWS:
When reading before listbox has contained focus, The link, heading , and
paragraph text are stringified for the selected option and the selected
state is revealed. The button labels are omitted.
When reading after listbox has contained focus, sometimes it is different:
the link is revealed as a link. The heading and paragraph are stringified
on a separate line. The select state is revealed. The button labels are
omitted.
When tabbing to the link and buttons, The link is read as a link but its
label is replaced with the listbox label. The buttons are read as buttons.
Firefox/Win/NVDA:
When reading in document review, nothing is read; NVDA just says list.
When reading in object review, it is possible to dig into the document
hierarchy and find the semantic elements.
When tabbing to the link and buttons: the elements are read with their
labels and roles, but the listbox context is not announced.
IE/JAWS:
when reading, the link, heading, and paragraph are stringified, but the
toolbar is revealed normally except that the buttons are read with “listbox
item selected” at the beginning of each label.
When tabbing to the link and buttons, The link is read as a link but its
label is replaced with the listbox label. The buttons are read as buttons.
IE/NVDA: none of the ARIA is recognized; read as HTML.
Except for the odd Firefox behavior, which is technically a bug, This all
makes sense. Given the mappings, it is exactly how it should be.
Matt
From: Bryan Garaventa [mailto:bryan.garaventa@ssbbartgroup.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2016 3:04 PM
To: James Nurthen <james.nurthen@oracle.com>; Matt King
<a11ythinker@gmail.com>; public-aria-admin@w3.org
Cc: 'Rich Schwerdtfeger' <richschwer@gmail.com>; 'Fred Esch'
<fesch@us.ibm.com>
Subject: RE: 48 hour Call For Consensus regarding Resolutions from the May
19, 2016 ARIA Working Group meeting
By this logic, it is also acceptable to put sliders inside of role=option
nodes too, as well as tablist containers with dynamic tabs, radio buttons,
links, checkboxes, trees, nested Listboxes, and comboboxes. And yes, I’ve
seen developers do these things.
The option role is not a composite widget, this is what it says in the
spec. It does not support focusable children.
So why is this acceptable or desirable when it goes against the spec and it
causes unlimited accessibility issues?
Bryan Garaventa
Accessibility Fellow
SSB BART Group, Inc.
bryan.garaventa@ssbbartgroup.com
415.624.2709 (o)
www.SSBBartGroup.com
From: James Nurthen [mailto:james.nurthen@oracle.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2016 12:41 PM
To: Bryan Garaventa <bryan.garaventa@ssbbartgroup.com>; Matt King <
a11ythinker@gmail.com>; public-aria-admin@w3.org
Cc: 'Rich Schwerdtfeger' <richschwer@gmail.com>; 'Fred Esch' <
fesch@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: 48 hour Call For Consensus regarding Resolutions from the May
19, 2016 ARIA Working Group meeting
I disagree that this is how they currently work.
Currently all the child nodes of option are exposed into the accessibility
tree so, if navigation is allowed to them (via a keyboard switch for
example), it is still possible for their correct role/state information to
be accessed by AT.
I fear that adding children are presentational to option will encorage
browsers to remove these nodes from the accessibility tree which will break
all kinds of things. Can someone clarify if child nodes of something with
children presenational = true would still be in the accessibility tree as
they are today? If these children are not in the accessibility tree then I
object to this change in ARIA 1.1. I am happy to revisit it in the ARIA 2.0
timeline.
Regards,
James
On 5/25/2016 12:16 PM, Bryan Garaventa wrote:
+1
I am in favor of leaving role=option and role=treeitem in this list
for the same reasons that Matt outlined here. This is literally how
they already work in ATs and in browsers, so the change is editorial.
If some want to expand role=option and/or role=treeitem in the future
to be composite, then that could be a 2.0 proposal.
Bryan Garaventa
Accessibility Fellow
SSB BART Group, Inc.
bryan.garaventa@ssbbartgroup.com
415.624.2709 (o)
www.SSBBartGroup.com
From: Matt King [mailto:a11ythinker@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2016 4:25 PM
To: Bryan Garaventa <bryan.garaventa@ssbbartgroup.com>; 'James
Nurthen' <james.nurthen@oracle.com>; public-aria-admin@w3.org
Cc: 'Rich Schwerdtfeger' <richschwer@gmail.com>; 'Fred Esch'
<fesch@us.ibm.com>
Subject: RE: 48 hour Call For Consensus regarding Resolutions from
the May 19, 2016 ARIA Working Group meeting
Fred, Rich, and James,
In practice, the children of option and treeitem elements already
behave as if they are presentational. This is true for all roles
mapped as inputs except composite inputs and text inputs. However,
composite widgets are mapped to desktop GUI components that have
well-defined interaction models and text inputs have their own
special accessible text interface for rendering the attributes of
their content to assistive technologies.
· Options and treeitems are defined in ARIA as singular
input elements. In this way, they are like the other subclasses
of input that are not also composite or text, i.e., checkbox,
radio, slider, and spinbutton.
· ARIA maps options and treeitems to desktop GUI
components that do not have either semantic or interactive
children.
· Because of the option and treeitem mappings, most
assistive technologies do not provide reading modes that work
inside of option and treitem elements. They may provide ways of
extracting the text, but it is stringafied.
· There are no standardized interaction models for
interacting with content inside of an option or treeitem.
Assistive tehcnologies can not provide guidance to users if
focus moves inside of an option or treeitem like they can if it
moves inside a composite or dialog.
Because option and treeitem have the above attributes but are not
formally defined as children presentational true, there is confusion
about what assistive technologies are capable of doing with them, how
checkers should treat them, and consequently, what authors should be
allowed to do with them.
Net: assistive technologies treat option and treeitem the way they do
in desktop GUIs because that is how they are mapped. Because of that,
all content inside is effectively presentational. Changing that would
mean huge changes to ARIA.
Accepting the proposal as written would bring the spec into line with
current real-world behaviors and limitations. It will enable us to
start fixing problems caused by this confusion.
One of the problems we can fix right away is helping Fred and James
make their UIs accessible within the practical constraints of ARIA
1.1.
Please, let’s not continue to compound the problems we already have
by removing option and treeitem from this CFC. Including them is
extremely valuable to the clarity, consistency, and robustness of
both the specification and the authoring practices.
BTW, Fred, one of the reasons I worked so hard on issue 633 to get
more flexibility and clarity for grid and dialog is to make reliable
accessibility feasible for the types of UIs you described. I think we
have the tools we need. They may not be100% optimal, and they fall
short of what I originally envisioned, but they are a good step
forward for a 1.1 release of the spec.
Matt King
From: Bryan Garaventa [mailto:bryan.garaventa@ssbbartgroup.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2016 12:14 PM
To: James Nurthen <james.nurthen@oracle.com>;
public-aria-admin@w3.org
Subject: RE: 48 hour Call For Consensus regarding Resolutions from
the May 19, 2016 ARIA Working Group meeting
Can you point to an example of this?
This type of implementation causes so many accessibility issues in
JAWS and NVDA and everywhere else that I’ve tested that I flag this
as a must-fix author error every time I come across it.
I can’t think of an instance where this is a good idea, because this
maps to the same role type as the HTML option element.
Bryan Garaventa
Accessibility Fellow
SSB BART Group, Inc.
bryan.garaventa@ssbbartgroup.com
415.624.2709 (o)
www.SSBBartGroup.com
From: James Nurthen [mailto:james.nurthen@oracle.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2016 12:02 PM
To: public-aria-admin@w3.org
Subject: Re: 48 hour Call For Consensus regarding Resolutions from
the May 19, 2016 ARIA Working Group meeting
I object to option being in this list too (for similar reasons to
treeitem).
We currently allow people to jump in and out of an "interaction" mode
in order to allow them to interact with the child elements. If
children presentational is added AT users will lose that ability.
Regards,
james
On 5/24/2016 10:47 AM, Bryan Garaventa wrote:
That’s fine with me, though I think we will need to have a
different proposal to deal with role=treeitem separately.
The problem being that currently no embedded controls within
treeitems are accessible, since the role=tree widget is treated
as one form field.
E.G
http://whatsock.com/tsg/Coding%20Arena/ARIA%20Trees/Tree%20
(External%20XML)/demo.htm
(Reproduceable in Firefox using JAWS and NVDA)
And it’s not clear how anything that is embedded within such
controls should be discoverable or even intuitively interacted
with.
Bryan Garaventa
Accessibility Fellow
SSB BART Group, Inc.
bryan.garaventa@ssbbartgroup.com
415.624.2709 (o)
www.SSBBartGroup.com
From: Rich Schwerdtfeger [mailto:richschwer@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2016 9:47 AM
To: Bryan Garaventa <bryan.garaventa@ssbbartgroup.com>
Cc: Fred Esch <fesch@us.ibm.com>; ARIA Working Group
<public-aria-admin@w3.org>
Subject: Re: 48 hour Call For Consensus regarding Resolutions
from the May 19, 2016 ARIA Working Group meeting
I agree. I sent out what was resolved at the meeting and had
the same thoughts but I was not on the call and was going to
raise the same exception. We will have the same issues we have
with options and lists.
+1 to keeping the proposal minus treeitem.
Rich
Rich Schwerdtfeger
On May 24, 2016, at 10:53 AM, Bryan Garaventa <
bryan.garaventa@ssbbartgroup.com> wrote:
Currently role=treeitem is not a composite widget, and as
such nothing rendered within these containers is
accessible. So not including role=treeitem in this list
will not solve this problem.
Bryan Garaventa
Accessibility Fellow
SSB BART Group, Inc.
bryan.garaventa@ssbbartgroup.com
415.624.2709 (o)
www.SSBBartGroup.com
From: Fred Esch [mailto:fesch@us.ibm.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2016 4:21 AM
To: Rich Schwerdtfeger <richschwer@gmail.com>
Cc: ARIA Working Group <public-aria-admin@w3.org>
Subject: Re: 48 hour Call For Consensus regarding
Resolutions from the May 19, 2016 ARIA Working Group
meeting
Rich,
I would like to see treeitem dropped from the list. No
one wants to use treegrid and we see UIs with trees of
complex widgets which should naturally use tree style
navigation between the them. If we include treeitem in
the list then you would not be able to call something a
tree, that looks like a tree and you want it to navigate
like a tree, if the leaves were complex controls that a
user could choose to leave visible. Again, no one will
ever call a tree of complex widgets a treegrid when where
there is no concept of rows in the layout.
Suggested solutions for a tree that are compatible with
treeitem only having presentational children are work
arounds such as having the widget appear in a dialog when
you click the treeitem. These 'solutions' are not be
practical when you have flows, card layouts, or block
chains that have branching. We are seeing lots of card
layouts, block chains and relationships expressed in web
apps that would be negatively impacted by this
restriction.
Regards,
Fred Esch
Watson, IBM, W3C
Accessibility
<image001.png> Watson Release Management and Quality
<image002.gif>Rich Schwerdtfeger ---05/23/2016 04:06:45
PM---This is a Call for Consensus (CfC) to the Accessible
Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) Working Group
From: Rich Schwerdtfeger <richschwer@gmail.com>
To: ARIA Working Group <public-aria-admin@w3.org>
Date: 05/23/2016 04:06 PM
Subject: 48 hour Call For Consensus regarding Resolutions
from the May 19, 2016 ARIA Working Group meeting
This is a Call for Consensus (CfC) to the Accessible Rich
Internet Applications (ARIA) Working Group regarding the
following resolutions of the ARIA Working group.
1. Add children presentational true to checkbox,
menuitem, menuitemcheckbox, menuitemradio, option, radio,
spinbutton, switch, tab, and treeitem in response to
Issue 1006
The meeting minutes are here:
https://www.w3.org/2016/05/19-aria-minutes.html
If you object to this proposal, or have comments
concerning it, please respond by replying on list to this
message no later than 23:49 (midnight) Boston Time,
Wednesday, May 25, 2016.
Regards,
Rich
—
Rich Schwerdtfeger, Email: richschwer@gmail.com
CTO Accessibility IBM Software: http://www.ibm.com.able
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility
Initiative (WAI)
Chair, Accessible Rich Internet Applications
https://www.w3.org/WAI/ARIA
Rich Schwerdtfeger
--
Regards, James
Oracle
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Oracle
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