[Bug 10463] provide a comprehensive HTML5 to accessibility API mapping reference

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10463





--- Comment #12 from Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>  2010-09-08 19:12:26 ---
(In reply to comment #11)
> (In reply to comment #10)
> > The main issue with this is that the mappings are incomplete, many elements in
> > the ARIA section have no default roles,state or properties. Accessibility APIs
> > have role states and properties not included in ARIA. How ARIA should map to
> > accessibility APIs is in the ARIA implememntation guide. How HTML5 should map
> > to  accessibility APIs should be in a HTML5 to accessibility API implementation
> > guide.
> 
> I think it's still appropriate for HTML5 to say that foo in HTML5 has to be
> mapped to the same accessible role as ARIA role bar even we want there to be an
> ARIA to accessibility API spec and an HTML to accessibility API spec.
> 
> Or do you want some HTML stuff to use accessibility API roles that are more
> refined than what ARIA maps to?


Note that the spec gives license to use a more refined accessibility API role
when available and appropriate:

"User agents may apply different defaults than those described in this section
in order to expose the semantics of HTML elements in a manner more fine-grained
than possible with the above definitions."

Saying element foo has a default role of bar just means that <foo> and <foo
role=bar> should behave the same, but this can use more specific accessibility
API mappings than role bar would generally use, if appropriate for that
element. I'm not sure what it would mean to say <foo> has a default role of bar
if that were not the case. In fact, I believe this conclusion follows from ARIA
without the specific requirements of the HTML5 spec, so long as any elements
have a default role specified. Thus, I believe the only way to really do what
this bug is asking is to remove all default roles.

At least that is my understanding.

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Received on Wednesday, 8 September 2010 19:12:28 UTC