RE: 7-day CfC: make spinbutton composite - closes 22 June

I’m not opposed to making spinbutton composite, my concern is if there is enough time to do so for 1.1.

For example, here is the spec text for spinbutton currently:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2016/WD-wai-aria-practices-1.1-20160317/#h-spinbutton


Here is what the APG says spinbuttons have historically been built as including referenced samples that show spinbutton usage as not being composite:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2016/WD-wai-aria-practices-1.1-20160317/#h-spinbutton


So for this to work, all of the same effort that Matt did for role=combobox would need to be done here too, including where to put aria-valuemin, aria-valuemax, aria-valuenow, aria-valuetext, and to determine which element receives focus and what is represented and how this is conveyed in the accessibility tree, and it would have to be done in such a way as to not break what currently is supported in the spec if done as it states so that compliance checkers would not flag the current way of doing this as being not supported in 1.1.



Bryan Garaventa
Accessibility Fellow
SSB BART Group, Inc.
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From: Michael Cooper [mailto:cooper@w3.org]
Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2016 4:54 PM
To: ARIA Admin <public-aria-admin@w3.org>
Subject: 7-day CfC: make spinbutton composite - closes 22 June


This is a Call for Consensus (CfC) to the Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) Working Group regarding the following resolution of the ARIA Working group:

Make the spinbutton role a composite widget

Background

This was approved by the participants of the 16 June 2016 teleconference, and further context is available in the minutes:

https://www.w3.org/2016/06/16-aria-minutes.html#item07


If this CfC is accepted, the following changes will be merged:

https://github.com/w3c/aria/compare/action-2085


Action

This CfC is now open for objection, comment, as well as statements of support via email. Silence will be interpreted as support, though messages of support are certainly welcome.

If you object to this proposal, or have comments concerning it, please respond by replying on list to this message no later than 23:59 (midnight) Boston Time, Wednesday, 22 June 2016. For objections only, please copy the main aria@w3.org<mailto:aria@w3.org> list to allow technical discussion of the objection to happen there.

Process

This CfC is conducted per the ARIA WG decision policy:

https://www.w3.org/WAI/ARIA/decision-policy


I am issuing this CfC as acting chair, but Rich will record the formal ratification if passed.

Michael