[Bug 11003] Map input type="range" suggestion labels to accessibility APIs

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=11003

Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #3 from Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com> 2010-10-10 22:57:43 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #0)
> You can label marks on a "input type='range'" by using the list attribute to
> point to a list of suggestions which may have labels ("label" attribute). These
> labels should be exposed to underlying accessibility APIs.
> 
> http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/number-state.html#range-state
> http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/common-input-element-attributes.html#the-list-attribute
> 
> This note might help for the Apple API:
> 
> http://lists.apple.com/archives/Accessibility-dev/2006/Apr/msg00004.html
> 
> See also discussion in Bug 10988.

This seems to be exposed simply by default.  That is, a consumer reading the
page can follow the @list attribute and read the labels.  Was there some
additional specific structure that should be exposed?  Is there a precedent for
talking about Accessiblity API-specific data structures?

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Received on Sunday, 10 October 2010 22:57:44 UTC