Re: aria-readonly and plain elements

I don't see readonly as a conflict with host language editing, and here's
why: a readonly state tweaks the meaning of a control to make it for
display and navigation only, but the value cannot be changed. A readonly
control is a subtype of that control. For example, authors use <input
readonly> is a special type of input. It doesn't negate the <input>, which
is why authors use that instead of a <span> -- they still get the control,
and the user can navigate it, but the value cannot be changed. In my
opinion, <contenteditable aria-readonly="true"> is simply analagous to
<input readonly>. It doesn't conflict, but it tweaks the use.

Regarding timing, I'm just bringing items up as I see them during
implementation. The group can save them for later, but as a browser
implementor I'd like to know the intention/direction in any case.

Aaron


On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 8:02 AM Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs@igalia.com> wrote:

> Hey again, Aaron.
>
> I have created a pull request to address (what I believe to be) the most
> concerning of the issues you identified. Please take a look -- keeping
> in mind that, given the deadlines, the goal is (alas) "good enough"
> rather than "perfect". The latter will have to wait for 1.2, I'm afraid.
>
> * PR: https://github.com/w3c/aria/pull/619
> * Pretty spec view:
>   -
>
> https://rawgit.com/w3c/aria/readonly-ia2/core-aam/core-aam.html#ariaReadonlyTrue
>   -
>
> https://rawgit.com/w3c/aria/readonly-ia2/core-aam/core-aam.html#ariaReadonlyFalse
>
> Thanks!
> --joanie
>
> On 08/02/2017 06:27 AM, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> > Hey Aaron.
> >
> > Regarding this particular issue:
> >
> > On 07/27/2017 12:15 PM, Aaron Leventhal wrote:
> >
> >> CORE-AAM readonly="false"
> >> States "Expose IA2_STATE_EDITABLE"
> >> This does not make sense for a lot of the roles that support
> >> aria-readonly, such as a checkbox.
> >> In general it does not make sense to expose IA2_STATE_EDITABLE unless
> >> you also expose the IAccessibleEditableText interface, which you would
> >> not do on something like a gridcell unless it had contenteditable.
> >
> > Yeah.... In the case of ATK, at least there's a statement regarding only
> > exposing the "editable" state if it's a textbox. Arguably that should be
> > changed to something like "textbox or searchbox" since our taxonomy is
> > not something we expect others to pay attention to.
> >
> > As for the other issues, a while back I had opened a github issue to fix
> > ATK and plan to do so later this morning:
> > https://github.com/w3c/aria/issues/568. Are the changes described there
> > what you feel are needed for IA2?
> >
> > --joanie
> >
> >
>
>