Re: Should versus MUST within the ARIA spec regarding interactive widgets?

+1 (after Marco's general contribution we are at a total of +101 to that then).


On 12/15/14, Marco Zehe <mzehe@mozilla.com> wrote:
> #100 to that!
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> Marco
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> On 15.12.2014 09:59, Bryan Garaventa wrote:
>> I was reading through the spec,
>> http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-1.1/
>> and noticed that within all of the interactive widget roles, such as Menu,
>> Menubar, Listbox, Grid, etc., the following text is used:
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>> "authors SHOULD manage focus of descendants for all instances of this
>> role, as described in Managing Focus."
>>
>> However, in section 2.3 Managing Focus, at
>> http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-1.1/#managingfocus
>> It states:
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>> "Content authors are required to manage focus on the following container
>> roles:" ... Which is missing Tablist/Tab by the way.
>>
>> So, regarding the use of SHOULD, it appears that managing focus for these
>> widget types is optional?
>>
>> Personally, it would make more sense to make this a MUST, because I see
>> way too many developers adding ARIA attributes and completely ignoring the
>> necessary scripting behaviors to make them work properly.
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Received on Monday, 15 December 2014 12:20:50 UTC