- From: Philippe Le Hegaret <plh@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 12:50:01 -0400
- To: Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>, eoconnor@apple.com, franko@microsoft.com, Richard Schwerdtfeger <schwer@us.ibm.com>
- Cc: public-html-a11y@w3.org, public-html@w3.org
Steve, Ted, Frank, Richard, on 201, the Chairs are currently assuming that you will all come to a conclusion by end of next week, ie agree on the change proposal. If that's a false assumption, please let them know and ask for more time. Philippe On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 15:43 +0100, Steve Faulkner wrote: > Hi all, > > so in regards to the clarification i am seeking I found that the spec > text is in one of the diffs: (thanks for adding the links to the diffs > in the proposal) > http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=7028&to=7029 > > If any of the following conditions are met, throw a + > <code>NotSupportedError</code> exception and abort these + > steps. > ... > > The arguments object's control member is not null but is > neither an a element that represents a hyperlink, a button > element, an input element whose type attribute is in one of > the Checkbox or Radio Button states, nor an input element > that is a button. > > This strongly suggests to me that no ARIA custom control can be > referenced by the control() method unless it is built on top of of one > of the listed elements. And the vast majority of HTML elements cannot > by referenced by control, including interactive elements such as > <input type=text> or <input type=range> etc. > > > regards > SteveF
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