Re: doc-pullquote

Sometimes they aren't purely decorative. At a minimum, they provide emphasis. Arguably, they could be navigable, too. Similar to headings or images, but probably not recommended to subclass landmarks.

> On Oct 27, 2016, at 9:17 AM, Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs@igalia.com> wrote:
> 
> But my understanding is that pullquotes are purely decorative and ATs
> shouldn't double present them. Native host language semantics won't
> necessarily buy us that, right?
> 
> --joanie
> 
> On 10/27/2016 12:05 PM, Rich Schwerdtfeger wrote:
>> Not mapped only means that the element is not mapped. Hidden should
>> apply to the element and its subtree unless a descendant is overridden
>> by the element. So, I think a better solution would be to not to expose
>> the role at all and allow it to default to the native host language
>> semantics. In this case it does not matter whether it has focus or not. 
>> 
>> In fact, I think it would be best to state that in the mapping spec.
>> that defines what it means to not be mapped. We should say that it
>> defaults to the native host language semantics and the ARIA role is not
>> exposed. 
>> 
>> Would this not be a better approach?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Rich Schwerdtfeger
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Oct 27, 2016, at 9:24 AM, Alexander Surkov <asurkov@mozilla.com
>>> <mailto:asurkov@mozilla.com>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Thinking more, aria-hidden='true' might be not that bad, even with its
>>> ambiguity of the usage and implementations in the browsers. If you say
>>> 'not mapped', then I think you should say if this is applied to
>>> elements from its subtree, also you may need to clarify the edge
>>> cases, for example, what happens, if the focus goes into 'pullquote'
>>> element.
>>> 
>>> Having said I would probably prefer if that was the author's
>>> responsibility to hide the element from AT, either by moving it
>>> offscreen or putting aria-hidden='true' on it.
>>> 
>>> Also I don't quire understand why would we need to have 'pullquote'
>>> role in the first place. If pullquote doesn't have semantics, then it
>>> doesn't seem worthwhile to have ARIA role for it.
>>> 
>>> Thanks.
>>> Alexander.
>>> 
>>> On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 9:34 AM, Rich Schwerdtfeger
>>> <richschwer@gmail.com <mailto:richschwer@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>> Based on this discussion:
>>>> 
>>>> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-dpub-aria/2016Oct/0029.html
>>>> 
>>>> I want to change the dpub-aam mapping to not mapped for all
>>>> platforms. That
>>>> includes (not xml-roles values for linux and Windows IA2 mappings).
>>>> It means
>>>> that the Mac mapping would go form group to not mapped.
>>>> 
>>>> Any disagreement?
>>>> 
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Rich
>>>> 
>>>> Rich Schwerdtfeger
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>> 
> 

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