[Bug 16656] New: Mapping of accessible actions from native semantics when overridden by @role

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=16656

           Summary: Mapping of accessible actions from native semantics
                    when overridden by @role
           Product: HTML WG
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: HTML a11y APIs (editor: Steve Faulkner, Cynthia
                    Shelly)
        AssignedTo: faulkner.steve@gmail.com
        ReportedBy: bhawkeslewis@googlemail.com
         QAContact: public-html-bugzilla@w3.org
                CC: mike@w3.org, public-html-wg-issue-tracking@w3.org,
                    public-html@w3.org


In a recent email, Firefox developer Alexander Surkov writes:

> <a role=link href><img alt="Lorem ipsum."></a>
> role of html:a is link, action is "jump"
> role of img accessible is image, action is "jump" (inherited from
> html:a accessible)
>
> <a role=img href>
> role is html:a accessbile is image, action is "jump" since it's a
> still link after all.

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/wai-xtech/2012Apr/0020.html

It is non-obvious that actions from native semantics should continue to be
exposed to accessibility APIs when those semantics are overridden. Whether this
is right or wrong, sounds like something the implementation guide should
explicitly discuss.

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Received on Saturday, 7 April 2012 07:53:06 UTC