RE: Important concerns with naming calculation 'name from content' not being included in parent role accessible name.

As this is a table for layout
- it should have
role=presentation on it. This
would then work wouldn't it?
Regards,
james

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Subject: Important concerns
with naming calculation 'name
from content' not being
included in parent role
accessible name.

Hi,
As most of us spoke of this
last Monday in the APG call, I
wanted to raise important
concerns about the
interpretation of the naming
calculation, that specific
roles that do not include
'name from content' are not
being included in the parent
role accessible name
calculation.

It was pointed out that this
change is already included in
Firefox, and I have built a
sample that demonstrates why
this global interpretation is
dangerous. The following
markup structure is now
totally inaccessible in
Firefox as a result of this
change.

<div tabindex="0" role="tab">
	<table>
		<tr>
			<td>
Inbox </td>
			<td>
(23) </td>
		</tr>
	</table>
</div>

Such a global interpretation
would not just apply to all
explicitly applied roles but
to all implicitly mapped ones
as well, and it is impossible
to predict how and in what
order all developers will need
to apply ARIA roles in order
to ensure accessibility in the
future and that doesn't take
into account what people are
already doing right now.

Aaron, can you please include
the markup example here that
you spoke of to demonstrate
why this is a needed globally
applied interpretation?

Thanks,
Bryan



Bryan Garaventa
Accessibility Fellow
SSB BART Group, Inc.
bryan.garaventa@ssbbartgroup.c
om
415.624.2709 (o)
www.SSBBartGroup.com

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