Response to your comments on Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) 1.0

Dear Takahiro Inada:

Thank you for your comments on the 18 January 2011 Candidate Recommendation
of Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) 1.0
(http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/CR-wai-aria-20110118/). The Protocols and
Formats Working Group has reviewed all comments received on the draft. We
would like to know whether we have understood your comments correctly and
whether you are satisfied with our resolutions.

Please review our resolutions for the following comments, and reply to us
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Regards,

Janina Sajka, PFWG Chair
Michael Cooper, PFWG Staff Contact


Comment 363: We require a property that is only used for explaining how to operate with keyboard.
Date: 2012-02-21
Archived at: UNSET
Relates to: Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) 1.0 - 6.6. Definitions of States and Properties (all aria-* attributes) <http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/CR-wai-aria-20110118/#state_prop_def>
Status: Alternate action taken

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Your comment:
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Hello WG members,
I often design multifunctional web applications at work. Screen reader
users should be informed how to operate individual UI elements or blocks as
necessary when the focus is on those elements or blocks. Users highly
likely know how to operate the keys for such widgets that can be defined
under the roles of WAI-ARIA-for example TabPanel and Tree-because they are
widely used. However, it is difficult to build a feature- multifunctional
RIA using only the widgets defined in WAI-ARIA. Therefore, uncommon key
operations are sometimes required in order to make all functions operable
via a keyboard. Customizing a widget often not only makes the key operation
unclear, but also confuses users due to the difference between the key
operation detected by users or screen readers and the actual operation.
We have no choice but to use aria-describedby property to describe the
guidance of keyboard operation when that operation is not well known by
users. But, aria-describedby property is essentially intended as
supplements to labels. So, users cannot know just for a keyboard guidance.
They will be forced to be shown a guidance of key operations with
irrelevant information.

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Response from the Working Group:
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We will consider this for ARIA 1.1. We track this in our issue 631
https://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/Group/track/issues/631.

Received on Tuesday, 21 January 2014 00:24:24 UTC