Re: Password role proposal: Freedom Scientific response

That is correct. ARIA is about interoperability at the API/browser level. It is not about mandating user agent visible user experience. It is not about mandating AT behavior. We have stated that from the very beginning. 

Although we are trying to get as close as possible with a SHOULD regarding ATs. IOW we should not hold up password role because ATs to fix the rendered text issue by CR. That issue exists with our without the password role. What we can do is if an author supplies the password role is tell the AT that is is a custom password field. This is something we do not have the ability to do without ARIA today. 

Rich

Rich Schwerdtfeger




> On Apr 25, 2016, at 2:31 PM, Léonie Watson <tink@tink.uk> wrote:
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> From: White, Jason J [mailto:jjwhite@ets.org <mailto:jjwhite@ets.org>] 
> Sent: 25 April 2016 20:03
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> From: Léonie Watson [mailto:tink@tink.uk <mailto:tink@tink.uk>] 
> Sent: Monday, April 25, 2016 12:47 PM
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> We do, yes. In this case I think walking means we need to drop the password role from 1.1, and take more time to try and get buy in from implementors.
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> A less drastic alternative would be to mark it as a feature at risk, but still take it to Candidate Recommendation to determine whether we can achieve correct and interoperable implementations. Before doing this, I would suggest checking with the W3C staff contact for the working group regarding the procedural details; but I think giving it a chance to be implemented in CR would be a better course of action than dropping a well specified proposal.
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> That’s more or less what’s happening I think. The feature has been marked as at risk/under review in the spec, pending implementations and the Security IG review.
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> It does raise a question about the ARIA exit criteria though. By the looks of things, the ARIA 1.0 exit criteria [1] only required interoperability at the accessibility API/browser level, not at the AT/screen reader level.
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> Léonie.
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> [1] https://www.w3.org/TR/2011/CR-wai-aria-20110118/#sotd_exit <https://www.w3.org/TR/2011/CR-wai-aria-20110118/#sotd_exit>