Re: Agenda: April 7, 2016 WAI-ARIA Working Group

On 2016-04-07 12:25 PM, Bryan Garaventa wrote:
> That looks good to me.

All right.  However, it occurs to me that both situations are possible. 
That is, the text input field uses aria-activedescendant to reference
the faux focus.  In the case you are concerned with, that input has
role="combobox".  In the other case, it has a textbox role.  However, in
neither case is the element referenced by aria-activedescendant actually
a descendant of the input.  Both situations have to be addressed.

With that in mind, here is another attempt that covers both:

"A special use case is a combobox where its text input field has DOM
focus, and that input element uses aria-activedescendant to reference
the currently active item within the combobox's popup.  In one case, the
text input field has role="combobox" whereas, in another case, it is a
textbox.  Regardless, the element referenced by aria-activedescendant is
not in fact a descendant of the input.  Even so, the
aria-activedescendant property is treated by user agents as the active
descendant of the combobox."

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Received on Thursday, 7 April 2016 18:23:59 UTC