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

+1

On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 1:51 PM Ku, JaEun Jemma <jku@illinois.edu> wrote:

> +1
> Jemma
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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
> -------
> 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
> ------
> 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
> -------
> This CfC is conducted per the ARIA WG decision policy:
> https://www.w3.org/WAI/ARIA/decision-policy
>
>

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