RE: ARIA "status" role definition should make clear that it is intended to be a status bar

Hi rich, 

>Where in the aria spec. definition do we state that status MUST be a
statusbar Steve?



It doesn't, but in the implementation guide it is mapped to the status bar
role on all platforms.

 

Regards

stevef

From: Richard Schwerdtfeger [mailto:schwer@us.ibm.com] 
Sent: 27 August 2010 03:51
To: Maciej Stachowiak
Cc: public-pfwg-comments@w3.org; public-pfwg-comments-request@w3.org; Steve
Faulkner
Subject: Re: ARIA "status" role definition should make clear that it is
intended to be a status bar

 

That is correct. It is meant to be very general. A status can contain all
types of information. Status bars are meant to be monitored by an AT. 

Where in the aria spec. definition do we state that status MUST be a
statusbar Steve?


Rich Schwerdtfeger
CTO Accessibility Software Group

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From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
To: public-pfwg-comments@w3.org
Cc: Steve Faulkner <sfaulkner@paciellogroup.com>
Date: 08/26/2010 04:53 AM
Subject: ARIA "status" role definition should make clear that it is intended
to be a status bar
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The ARIA definition of the "status" role says:

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A container whose content is advisory information for the user but is not
important enough to justify an alert. Also see alert.
Authors MUST provide status information content within a status object.
Authors SHOULD ensure this object does not receive focus.

Status is a form of live region. If another part of the page controls what
appears in the status, authors SHOULD make the relationshipexplicit with the
aria-controls attribute.
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This seems very general, and like something that could apply to the HTML5
<output> element for instance. However, according to Steve Faulkner, this is
meant to be mapped to a status bar role in platform accessibility APIs,
which would likely make it inappropriate for <output>. Please correct the
definition in ARIA to make clear that it is not intended to be used only for
status bars or similar constructs.

Regards,
Maciej

Received on Friday, 27 August 2010 06:34:40 UTC