RE: ARIA annotations open issues

James,
As you may remember, UIA doesn't support reverse relations.  ms-aria-flows-from was how IE worked around that issue.

-----Original Message-----
From: James Craig [mailto:jcraig@apple.com] 
Sent: Thursday, May 8, 2014 2:50 PM
To: Cynthia Shelly; Christopher Gallello; Michael Cooper
Cc: public-pfwg@w3.org
Subject: Re: ARIA annotations open issues

On May 8, 2014, at 12:55 PM, Cynthia Shelly <cyns@microsoft.com> wrote:

> From: Christopher Gallello <cgallell@microsoft.com>
> 
> The Internet Explorer team has expressed some concerns for this in the past, and they were forced to create ms-aria-flowfrom. I will follow up on what their exact concerns were to see if those concerns apply to this scenario (meeting with them on Thursday). Firefox was able to implement aria-flowto just fine.

IIRC, this is the first I've heard about @x-ms-aria-flowfrom. Michael and Cynthia, do we have any comments from IE team on the ARIA 1.0 spec related to this? How long ago was this implemented?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh969157.aspx

Chris and Cynthia, please track down the reason for this addition. Is it because the team wanted a one-to-many relationship where the auto-calculated inverse relationship is easier to track as one-to-one? Is it a performance-related implementation detail?

Thanks.

Received on Friday, 9 May 2014 22:42:34 UTC