7-Day Call for Consensus (CfC): Publish FPWD of AccName 1.2

This is a Call for Consensus (CfC) to the ARIA Working Group on the 
question of publishing First Public Working Drafts of AccName 1.2. The 
content to be published can be found at the 
https://rawgit.com/w3c/accname/FPWD_CANDIDATE_1/.

Details
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The only substantive change thus far is modifying step 1 of the 
algorithm so that it now reads:

   Set the root node to the given element, the current node to the
   root node, and the total accumulated text to the empty string ("").
   If the root node's role prohibits naming, return the empty string
   ("").

This change in and of itself has no implementation impact, but it allows 
other specifications to optionally prohibit naming for a top-level 
element. Furthermore, even if this prohibition is made within a 
specification, that prohibition will not have any impact on calculating 
name from contents. The reason for the addition to this statement is to 
make it possible for specifications to achieve results such as the 
following:

   <span aria-label="bar">foo</span>: The span has no name.

   <button><span aria-label="bar">foo</span></button>: The button's
   accessible name is "bar" (but the span itself has no name).

But, again, doing the actual prohibiting will still need to be done 
elsewhere; not in AccName.

Action
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This CfC is now open for objection, comment, as well as statements of 
support via email. Silence will be interpreted as support, though 
messages of support are certainly welcome.

If you object to this proposal, or have comments concerning it, please 
respond by replying on list to this message no later than 12:00 Boston 
Time, Friday, 5 July 2019.

For objections only, please copy the main public-aria@w3.org list to 
allow technical discussion of the objection to happen there.

Process
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This CfC is conducted per the ARIA WG decision policy: 
https://www.w3.org/WAI/ARIA/decision-policy

Received on Thursday, 27 June 2019 18:23:35 UTC