Re: review of section 3.2.6 ARIA roles and properties in HTML first detailed pass

Rich Schwerdtfeger
CTO Accessibility Software Group

Steven Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com> wrote on 06/17/2010 04:06:33 PM:

> From: Steven Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
> To: Richard Schwerdtfeger/Austin/IBM@IBMUS
> Cc: cyns@exchange.microsoft.com, public-html-a11y@w3.org
> Date: 06/17/2010 04:07 PM
> Subject: Re: review of section 3.2.6 ARIA roles and properties in
> HTML first  detailed pass
>
> hi rich thanks for the feedback
>
> >You have img element with an empty alt attribute but img does not
> reside in the second table. An image could easily be >overridden.
> >Why are <div> and <span> not included in the language features?
>
>
> as per the current tables in the html5 spec if an element has no
> restrictions placed on it in regards to its role, the element is not
> included in either table.
>
> #I will add a list of elements that have no restrictions to make
> this explicit.
>
Great! It will also be good to see this to see if we have missed something.
Do you think this set should ultimately reside in an appendix?
>
> >Where do we call out global ARIA attributes? - these can be used
> anywhere per the ARIA spec.
> As far as aria-* attrubutes are concerned all are allowed on any
> element unless otherwise stated.
>
> #I will make this clear as well.
>
Great! I think that would be an improvement to what we have.

> >Developers can override this with script. So, I would suggest that
> we allow aria-haspopup on these. That raises another issue. >This
> proposal states that aria-haspopup only refers to a context menu.
> That may not be true. It could be a submenu reference.
> see preceding comment.
>
That's fine but the wording that haspopup only applies to a context menu
should be corrected to include submenus. Two examples:

- menu sub menu
- drop down buttons

> >section: We need to include navigation in what can override. Also,
> I don't believe we should restrict role=Main to one per container
> >element. Within a container you may have subcontainers.
> will ad nav to section
> the main restriction is as per the aria spec.
>
> >What happened to <th>? It should have a default role of either
> columnheader but can be overriddent by rowheader or >columnheader
>
> its in table 1
>
The overrides for this should include columenheader and rowheader. These
are specific semantics.

> >footer has a default role of contentinfo. If you recall Ian or
> someone said footer has no defined location.
> this mapping is taken from the current html5 spec text.
>
The HTML 5 spec is wrong then. We should correct it.

BTW. Nice job on the mapping tables.

> regards
>
> steve
>
> On 17 June 2010 21:35, Richard Schwerdtfeger <schwer@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> Review of: http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/misc/HTML5/aria-html5-
> proposal.html
>
> Comments:
>
> Table 1:
>
> <img>
>
> You have img element with an empty alt attribute but img does not
> reside in the second table. An image could easily be overridden. For
> example a button"
> <img alt"ok" src="" role="button" aria-pressed="true" tabindex="0".../>
>
> We should have img in table 2 as well.
>
> Hidden attribute - aria-hidden="true" as the default semantics
>
> <hr> Should we allow the author to establish aria-controls relationships?
>
> There are three commands who have roles of menuitem. I am surprised
> they don't have a submenu. Did they not think of that? If so, this
> is a place where you will need ARIA as the host language does not
> support submenus. Developers can override this with script. So, I
> would suggest that we allow aria-haspopup on these. That raises
> another issue. This proposal states that aria-haspopup only refers
> to a context menu. That may not be true. It could be a submenu reference.
>
> Table 2:
>
> section: We need to include navigation in what can override. Also, I
> don't believe we should restrict role=Main to one per container
> element. Within a container you may have subcontainers.
>
> table: This does not have a default role of grid. It can be
> overridden by a grid. It has no implied ARIA semantics.
>
> What happened to <th>? It should have a default role of either
> columnheader but can be overriddent by rowheader or columnheader
>
> footer has a default role of contentinfo. If you recall Ian or
> someone said footer has no defined location.
>
>
> Why are <div> and <span> not included in the language features?
>
> Where do we call out global ARIA attributes? - these can be used
> anywhere per the ARIA spec.
>
> Before I do another pass I'd like to hear feedback on these.
>
> Rich
>
>
>
> Rich Schwerdtfeger
> CTO Accessibility Software Group
>
>
>
> --
> with regards
>
> Steve Faulkner
> Technical Director - TPG Europe
> Director - Web Accessibility Tools Consortium
>
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