- From: James Nurthen <james.nurthen@oracle.com>
- Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2016 19:51:11 -0800
- To: Bryan Garaventa <bryan.garaventa@ssbbartgroup.com>, "public-aria@w3.org" <public-aria@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <56BEA82F.6010506@oracle.com>
The input (<input name="dmoTpl:idInputComboboxListOfValues" class="xer" id="dmoTpl:idInputComboboxListOfValues::content" role="combobox" aria-describedby="dmoTpl:idInputComboboxListOfValues::desc" type="text" value="Blake3">) is the triggering element. You can open the "combo box" with Alt+Down Arrow. In this case this will launch an aria dialog but visually it looks like a combo box with a grid at the top and a search link underneath. If you just type a partial value in the combobox field it will not complete from the list but instead pop open the same dialog which would otherwise be launched if you pressed the Search.... link in the original popup. This may seem complex but controls like these are needed for applications where you need to search across multiple DB fields in order to find a value. The other button (<button class="p_AFHoverTarget x7j p_AFTextOnly" id="dmoTpl:popupButton" aria-haspopup="true" onclick="return false;" data-afr-fcs="true">Show inputComboboxListOfValues in a popup</button>) simply launches a dialog which contains a similar combo box from which you can perform the same operation. Regards, James On 2/12/2016 5:34 PM, Bryan Garaventa wrote: > > Hi James, > > Can you explain how to use the control, or where to enter sample data > for the demo? I’m having trouble locating the control that is meant by > a Combobox. > > I see the following two triggering elements: > > <input name="dmoTpl:idInputComboboxListOfValues" class="xer" > id="dmoTpl:idInputComboboxListOfValues::content" role="combobox" > aria-describedby="dmoTpl:idInputComboboxListOfValues::desc" > type="text" value="Blake3"> > > When I enter data into it though, I can’t tell what should be > happening, or if specific text needs to be entered to trigger this. > > I also see the following triggering element: > > <button class="p_AFHoverTarget x7j p_AFTextOnly" > id="dmoTpl:popupButton" aria-haspopup="true" onclick="return false;" > data-afr-fcs="true">Show inputComboboxListOfValues in a popup</button> > > And yes, this does trigger a dialog, but I wouldn’t conceptually think > of this button as a combobox. > > Please let me know if I’m looking at the wrong controls. > > Thanks, > > Bryan > > *From:*James Nurthen [mailto:james.nurthen@oracle.com] > *Sent:* Friday, February 12, 2016 4:56 PM > *To:* public-aria@w3.org > *Subject:* Re: ACTION-1490 proposal says good bye to the "inline" > notion for combobox > > Cynthia, > Here is an example. > http://jdevadf.oracle.com/adf-richclient-demo/faces/components/inputComboboxListOfValues.jspx > > The Component has a list where you can select data from a grid (note: > we should change this to table in the future now we have an aria role > of table) as well as a search link which takes you to a dialog where > you can do a more complex search. > > Regards, > James > > On 2/12/2016 4:45 PM, Cynthia Shelly wrote: > > Sorry I’m late to the thread. I’ve been digging through this, HTML > 5 datalist, and some implementation discussions with my team. > > Bryan raises some good points. > > Opening a dialog from a combobox seems bizarre to me. Do you have > an example of a UI that does that? To me, that’s not a combobox. > That’s (maybe) a button that opens a dialog. A combobox is a > <em>combo</em> of a text <em>box</em> and a list. Sometimes, > they’re read-only, like the HTML Select element. I can sort of > see the grid and tree as extensions of that model, but not dialog. > > Search autocompletes sometime use aria-controls with > aria-activedescendant (often aria-owns too). I don’t see why this > is a problem. > > A modal combobox also seems bizarre to me. A combobox is a fairly > simple control. When you tab out of one, it closes, and you go to > the next control on the page. This has been true since the > earliest versions of Windows (I assume other platforms too). Why > does it suddenly need to be modal? > > On the auto-complete question, I think the most confusing thing is > that we’re using the term auto-complete for two very different > things. Autocomplete=inline is an automatic completion of the text > being typed. Autocomplete=list is something that we call an > “auto-suggest.” They often coexist, but they don’t have to, and > they’re quite different. What if we took a page from the html5 > book, and had something similar the this @list attribute pointing > to the datalist. This is similar to aria-controls (we actually > map it to the same thing in UIA) but is more clear from an > authoring perspective. So, you could have something like this > > <div role=textbox content-editable=true aria-autosuggest=foo></div> > > <div id=foo role=listbox> > > <div role=listitem> > > … > > </div> > > That’s pretty much the same as > > <input type=text list=foo> > > <datalist id=foo> > > <option> > > … > > </datalist> > > We could call it aria-autosuggest or aria-list. Thoughts? > > *From:*Bryan Garaventa [mailto:bryan.garaventa@ssbbartgroup.com] > *Sent:* Thursday, February 11, 2016 1:37 PM > *To:* Rich Schwerdtfeger <richschwer@gmail.com> > <mailto:richschwer@gmail.com>; Joseph Scheuhammer > <clown@alum.mit.edu> <mailto:clown@alum.mit.edu> > *Cc:* Matt King <mck@fb.com> <mailto:mck@fb.com>; ARIA Working > Group <public-aria@w3.org> <mailto:public-aria@w3.org> > *Subject:* RE: ACTION-1490 proposal says good bye to the "inline" > notion for combobox > > “Here "descendants" means either a DOM descendant of the > container, or one referenced by aria-owns. This procedure won't > succeed for combobox containers if aria-controls is used instead > of aria-owns.” > > This is the part that is confusing me, because it already works, > I’ve tested this in IE11, Firefox, Chrome using JAWS and NVDA and > it works accessibly, and the same implementation is accessible in > iOS using VoiceOver in Safari. > > I get that in the browser you are referring to the mappings, but > the web is a weird place, and there are many instances that > involve relationships like this that are not necessarily good to > represent as trapped modals or as requisite children. > > E.G a search field that dynamically updates a region of the page > as you type into it, that can announce the first result that is > matched while also allowing you to use Up/Down to scroll through > the results while leaving focus on the search field. The user will > not want to be trapped and to be unable to read the rest of the > page if they desire to. > > This currently works accessibly using the method I’ve described > here, but will be practically useless if trapped in the manner you > are describing. > > So if the implementation I’ve got here is incorrect, regardless > that it is already provably accessible, what will changing it > accomplish, and what specifically needs to be changed? > > I also am having a hard time understanding the relationship of > triggering a dialog from a combobox. > > E.G If you are typing into a combobox, at what point would you be > navigating a dialog? How could you read back what you have typed > if focus is then trapped in a dialog? > > *From:*Rich Schwerdtfeger [mailto:richschwer@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Thursday, February 11, 2016 1:03 PM > *To:* Joseph Scheuhammer <clown@alum.mit.edu > <mailto:clown@alum.mit.edu>> > *Cc:* Bryan Garaventa <bryan.garaventa@ssbbartgroup.com > <mailto:bryan.garaventa@ssbbartgroup.com>>; Matt King <mck@fb.com > <mailto:mck@fb.com>>; ARIA Working Group <public-aria@w3.org > <mailto:public-aria@w3.org>> > *Subject:* Re: ACTION-1490 proposal says good bye to the "inline" > notion for combobox > > using aria-activedescendant for aria-controls would be hugely bad. > Think live regions where a checkbox controls the content of the > live region. > > Rich Schwerdtfeger > > On Feb 11, 2016, at 2:10 PM, Joseph Scheuhammer > <clown@alum.mit.edu <mailto:clown@alum.mit.edu>> wrote: > > Hi Bryan, > > On 2016-02-11 1:03 PM, Bryan Garaventa wrote: > > The use of aria-controls in this case solves the issue by > setting an explicit association, and aria-activedescendant > works in identifying the referenced node that is active. > > > There may still be a problem -- I am investigating. The > Core-AAM describes an algorithm associated with > aria-activedescendant that user agents MUST execute in order > to mark the potential active descendants as focusable. In > summary, when the user agent encounters a container with an > aria-activedescendant attribute, the user agent must visit all > descendants of the container and determine if they could be > the target of the container's aria-activedescendant. The user > agent must expose a focusable state for each such target, and > only for those descendants that are targets. > > Here "descendants" means either a DOM descendant of the > container, or one referenced by aria-owns. This procedure > won't succeed for combobox containers if aria-controls is used > instead of aria-owns. > > A way to patch this is to run the exact same algorithm but > base it on aria-controls if aria-owns is not used. However, > that requires buy-in from all user agents, and tests cases for > the ARIA test harness. > > > I'm getting confused by the reference to modal dialogs. > This isn't a modal dialog, it's a Listbox, and focus is > never meant to leave the element that includes > role=combobox. So what does the modal dialog have to do > with it? > > > Matt's new definition of combobox includes drop-downs that > contain a grid, a treegrid, or a dialog instead of a listbox. > When Rich discussed this with Freedom Scientific, they were > willing to handle such cases, but only if the drop-down was > modal. The thread starts here: > https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-aria/2016Feb/0151.html > > -- > ;;;;joseph. > > 'Die Wahrheit ist Irgendwo da Draußen. Wieder.' > - C. Carter - > > -- > Regards, James > > Oracle <http://www.oracle.com> > James Nurthen | Principal Engineer, Accessibility > Phone: +1 650 506 6781 <tel:+1%20650%20506%206781> | Mobile: +1 415 > 987 1918 <tel:+1%20415%20987%201918> | Video: james.nurthen@oracle.com > <mailto:james.nurthen@oracle.com> > OracleCorporate Architecture > 500 Oracle Parkway | Redwood Cty, CA 94065 > Green Oracle <http://www.oracle.com/commitment>Oracle is committed to > developing practices and products that help protect the environment > -- Regards, James Oracle <http://www.oracle.com> James Nurthen | Principal Engineer, Accessibility Phone: +1 650 506 6781 <tel:+1%20650%20506%206781> | Mobile: +1 415 987 1918 <tel:+1%20415%20987%201918> | Video: james.nurthen@oracle.com <sip:james.nurthen@oracle.com> Oracle Corporate Architecture 500 Oracle Parkway | Redwood Cty, CA 94065 Green Oracle <http://www.oracle.com/commitment> Oracle is committed to developing practices and products that help protect the environment
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