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

+1


On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 6:49 AM James Craig <jcraig@apple.com> wrote:

> +1 with or without the following change.
>
> Suggestion: It’d make the doc a little more clear to add “None” under
> 6.1.2 since it’s an empty list head.
>
> > On Jun 27, 2019, at 11:22 AM, Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs@igalia.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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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