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

+1
Jemma

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From: Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs@igalia.com> 
Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2019 1:23 PM
To: ARIA Admin <public-aria-admin@w3.org>
Subject: 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 18:51:11 UTC