Re: addition of HTML role requirement mappings

Thanks, James. Answering inline (if it's out scope of the topic then let's
move it somewhere else).


On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 3:06 PM, James Craig <jcraig@apple.com> wrote:

> Ah. There are several reasons and use cases:
>
> 1. ARIA is used for more than just HTML, (e.g. SVG <g role="table">)
>

afaik SVG allows HTML inside, it doesn't seem the author have to use ARIA
if he wants tabular data for AT in SVG.


> 2. Some people need to retrofit tablular data on existing sites that do
> not use <table> (e.g. <div role="table">)
>

What does prevent them to use HTML tables?


> 3. The 1:1 role mapping to HTML is also required for presentation
> inheritance. (e.g. <table role="presentation">)
> 4. The 1:1 role mapping will be useful once we add the
> Element.computedRole interface. PFWG-ISSUE-427
>

I don't follow these cases, can you elaborate please?


> HTH,
> James
>
>
> On Feb 21, 2014, at 10:33 AM, Alexander Surkov <surkov.alexander@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> No. As I understood there's a suggestion to introduce ARIA table and table
> cell roles duping HTML tables semantics. That was looking the bloat for me
> since I don't see any use case for that.
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 1:24 PM, James Craig <jcraig@apple.com> wrote:
>
>> Are you saying grids are the bloat, or the 1:1 mappings against
>> html:table is the bloat?
>>
>> On Feb 21, 2014, at 9:38 AM, Alexander Surkov <surkov.alexander@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> If table and table cell ARIA roles are supposed to be a part of browser
>> implementation then it looks like spec overbloating with no usecase.
>>
>>
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>> On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 12:22 PM, James Craig <jcraig@apple.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Yeah, I think this illustrates that we need to get table and cell roles
>>> in soon for ARIA 1.1. cell and gridcell can probably just be aliases, but
>>> table and grid are semantically different.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Feb 21, 2014, at 5:17 AM, Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> hixie has added some role requirements and restrictions in the whatwg
>>> spec that will  soon come up for cherry picking [1] to the HTML 5.1 spec.
>>> previously we determined that some of the following were not
>>> appropriate, so am asking for ARIA folk to review:
>>>
>>> note: implementers MUST map to these roles and authors are restricted to
>>> applying the roles listed for each element (authors can also apply
>>> role=presentation).
>>>
>>> strong semantics:
>>>
>>> table element     grid role
>>> tbody element     rowgroup role
>>> td element     gridcell role
>>> tfoot element     rowgroup role
>>> thead element     rowgroup role
>>> tr element     row role
>>>
>>>
>>> implicit semantics:
>>>
>>> th element     gridcell role     Role must be either columnheader,
>>> rowheader, or gridcell
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> [1]
>>> https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/5b5ad72b8e7bb36ab863effc942829eef82fe3c4#commitcomment-5449710
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>>> --
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> SteveF
>>> HTML 5.1 <http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/>
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