Re: Fwd: [Accessibility-ia2] IA2 Role Landmark

Jamie, are you good with
1) adding IA2_ROLE_LANDMARK and
2) deprecating IA2_ROLE_FORM?

Thanks.
Alex.

On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 11:04 AM, Joseph Scheuhammer <clown@alum.mit.edu>
wrote:

> On 2016-04-18 10:41 AM, Rich Schwerdtfeger wrote:
> >
> > So, this is pretty much what I expected. The net is you should use the
> > new IA2 landmark role vs. the Form role for newer versions of firefox
> > (along with exposing the xml-roles=“form”) in newer versions of
> > Firefox and this should be reflected in the Core mapping spec.
> >
>
> To be concrete: the current MSAA+IA2 mapping of role="form" is to map it
> to IA2_ROLE_FORM [1].  Is the suggestion to change that to
> IA2_ROLE_LANDMARK + xml-roles:"form"?
>
> If so, are the other platforms affected?  I imagine for
> interoperability, you would want ATK/AT-SPI to change from ROLE_FORM to
> ROLE_LANDMARK.
>
> UIA seems to have it covered, in that they store both a Control type
> (Group) and a Landmark Type (form) -- does that remain unchanged?
>
> [1] https://w3c.github.io/aria/core-aam/core-aam.html#role-map-form
>
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