Response to your comments on WAI-ARIA 1.0 Authoring Practices

Dear Jim Jewitt:



Thank you for your comments on the 24 February 2009 Working Draft of
WAI-ARIA 1.0 Authoring Practices
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Janina Sajka, PFWG Chair

Michael Cooper, PFWG Staff Contact


Comment 277: toolbar example
Date: 2009-07-07
Archived at: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-pfwg-comments/2009JulSep/0000.html
Relates to: WAI-ARIA 1.0 Authoring Practices - 2.  General Steps for Building an Accessible Widget with ARIA <http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-wai-aria-practices-20090224/#accessiblewidget>
Status: Accepted proposal

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Your comment:
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http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-practices/#accessiblewidget (as of July

7, 2009) uses <div role="toolbar"> as an example.



As stated under step 2, subsection (or dt) "supported states and

properties", this role does not have any directly supported states or

properties.   aria-multiselectable would apply to a listbox, but not

to a toolbar.



However, the boxed example immediately following begins with



    <div role="toolbar" multiselectable="false"



which strongly suggests that the multiselectable property is still
relevant.

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Response from the Working Group:
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You are correct, this property is not relevant and we have removed it from
the example.

Received on Tuesday, 15 December 2009 00:31:20 UTC