thanks Jon, I have set up a wiki page and added your use cases:
https://www.w3.org/wiki/HTML/accAPI/
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SteveF
HTML 5.1 <http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/>
On 18 December 2014 at 17:44, Gunderson, Jon R <jongund@illinois.edu> wrote:
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> Use Case #1: Accessibility Evaluation Tools
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> Accessibility evaluation tools like AInspector Sidebar for Firefox and FAE
> 2.0 that are based on the OpenAjax Accessibility Evaluation Library can use
> this API as part of the analysis of the web resources for accessibility
> information. Currently these tools must implement their own algorithms to
> compute the label and role values. The computed values can be compared to
> markup to identify coding errors when labeling information like
> aria-labelledby reference invalid or duplicate ids.
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> OpenAjax Web Accessibility Evaluation Library
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> http://www.openajax.org/member/wiki/Accessibility
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> Use Case #2: “SkipTo” Javascript Utility
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> “SkipTo” is a javascript utility to provide keyboard navigation to a list
> of headings and landmarks for use in navigating the structured content of a
> web page. The ability to search the DOM for role (e.g. heading, landmark)
> and get accessible names through computed label values would make this code
> immensely simpler (e.g. do not need to replicate code already in the
> browser for computing these values, similar to get computedStyle). I am
> currently working on updating this code to include HTML5 section elements
> with labels.
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> Reference:
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> https://github.com/paypal/skipto
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> Jon
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> *From:* Steve Faulkner [mailto:faulkner.steve@gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Thursday, December 18, 2014 10:25 AM
> *To:* HTMLWG WG
> *Cc:* Alice Boxhall; David Bolter; Dominic Mazzoni; Richard
> Schwerdtfeger; Domenic Denicola; Alexander Surkov; W3C WAI Protocols &
> Formats; James Craig
> *Subject:* use cases 'DOM needs a way to get element's computed ARIA role
> and computed label string'
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> Can people who are interested in getting this[1] stuff defined and
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> [1] https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=27294
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> https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/blink-dev/WToTEn4lveY
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> Regards
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> SteveF
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