Re: ISSUE-406: Proposal for new aria-tooltip property. (Previously proposed as @aria-help)

On Feb 18, 2014, at 8:27 AM, Gunderson, Jon R <jongund@illinois.edu> wrote:

> James,
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> What is the computational relationship between aria-tooltip/aria-help and aria-describedby for accessibility APIs, what trumps what? Is aria-tooltip/aria-help envisioned to have a complementary relationship with aria-describedby (e.g. aria-label and aria-labelledby)?

The only overlap would be if aria-describedby was used to point to an element with the tooltip role, which is the currently supported wonky pattern mentioned in the call yesterday. The trump is described in #3 below.

To clarify the mention of both @aria-help and @aria-tooltip, I previously proposed this as @aria-help, but people were more receptive to the name @aria-tooltip, so I updated the proposal. My previous email may have been confusing because I missed a couple references to the old @aria-help attribute name. I think I’ve corrected them all below now.

James


> Jon
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> From: James Craig [mailto:jcraig@apple.com] 
> Sent: Monday, February 17, 2014 4:50 PM
> To: W3C WAI Protocols & Formats; Cynthia Shelly
> Subject: ISSUE-406: Proposal for new aria-tooltip property. (Previously proposed as @aria-help)
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> From the discussion on this morning’s call regarding @aria-tooltip. 
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> aria-tooltip (property)
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> Defines a string value that provides complementary tooltip or help text information for the current element. Also see aria-label.
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> The purpose of aria-tooltip is to provide additional information that complements the label text. For example, if the visible label of a tab is "General", the value of aria-tooltip may be, "Displays general preferences for the application, such as home page, history, and download preferences." 
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> Authors SHOULD NOT provide a value for aria-tooltip that duplicates information already provided as all or part of the element's accessible name (label). Authors SHOULD NOT provide a value for @aria-tooltip if that information is already provided using the host language’s tooltip attribute, such as @title in HTML.
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> Tooltip/Help Computation 
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> 1. If the element has a non-empty "aria-tooltip" attribute, user agents will expose the value of that attribute as the Tooltip/Help value in the accessibility API.
> 2. If the element has an explicitly empty "aria-tooltip" attribute, (aria-tooltip=""), user agents will expose no Tooltip/Help value in the accessibility API. 
> 3. If the element has no "aria-tooltip" attribute, but the "aria-describedby" attribute references a single element whose role is "tooltip", user agents must calculate the description using the text alternative algorithm and expose that string as the Tooltip/Help value in the accessibility API. 
> 4. Otherwise, if there is no ARIA-based tooltip, and the element includes the generic tooltip attribute (such as @title in HTML), and if the tooltip attribute has NOT been used in the name computation for the element, user agents MUST expose the value of the tooltip attribute (e.g. @title in HTML) as the Tooltip/Help value in the accessibility API.
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> Related Concepts
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> Help Tag (Apple Human Interface Guidelines)
> http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/AppleHIGuidelines/XHIGUsingTechnologies/XHIGUsingTechnologies.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP30000355-TPXREF9
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> AXHelp (Apple AX API)
> http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/Accessibility/Reference/AccessibilityLowlevel/AXAttributeConstants_h/CompositePage.html#//apple_ref/c/macro/kAXHelpAttribute
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> Cynthia, please provide a link to the UIA tooltip pattern you mentioned. I’ll add it.
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Received on Tuesday, 18 February 2014 18:41:52 UTC