Mapping of aria-errormessage for ATK/AT-SPI2 and IA2

• From: Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs@igalia.com>
• Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 14:42:02 -0500
• To: IA2 List <Accessibility-ia2@lists.linux-foundation.org>
• Cc: ARIA Working Group <public-aria@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <56CCB60A.9000408@igalia.com>

Hey all.

We need to map aria-errormessage on the various platforms, including
ATK/AT-SPI2 and IA2. Given the ongoing desire for cross-platform
homogeneity, I'll toss out what I was thinking for my platform for
consideration by IA2 folks.

Proposal: Connect the message to the element with the error via the
RELATION_DESCRIBED_BY/RELATION_DESCRIPTION_FOR relation pair and expose
"errormessage" as an object attribute.

Rationale:

1. An error message provides descriptive information about an object.

2. Exposure via a relation eliminates the need to tree dive to find
   the error.

3. Accessible relations can have multiple targets, so this exposure
   does not stomp on a non-error description while at the same time
   eliminating the need for each platform to create a new relation
   type(s).

4. The object attribute is needed to identify which target (if any)
   is an error message.

Thoughts?
--joanie

Received on Tuesday, 23 February 2016 19:42:38 UTC