Re: ARIA 1.1 combobox examples fix in Chrome

Hi Matt, Chrome tries to enforce rules around activedescendant usage, even
though the core aam doesn't require it. Firefox does not try to do this.
These restrictions got in the way this time by expecting an aria role that
supports activedescendant. The code should have allowed the textfield role
to come from the native input element, and buy require an aria role.

Here's the bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=845651


Aaron

On Tue, May 22, 2018, 9:02 PM Matt King <a11ythinker@gmail.com> wrote:

> Aaron, thanks! Can you point to the bug?
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> *From:* Aaron Leventhal [mailto:aleventhal@google.com]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, May 22, 2018 6:01 PM
> *To:* public-aria-practices@w3.org
> *Subject:* ARIA 1.1 combobox examples fix in Chrome
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> Hi all, I just landed a change that should show up in tomorrow's Canary.
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> It fixes the ARIA 1.1 combobox examples in Chrome. The dropdown list items
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> Thanks,
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