Re: First draft of ARIA 1.1. "text" role

That makes sense. Are there ideas how to map it accessibility API? I
realize the mapping has to be quite different than mapping of native text.

On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 4:15 PM, James Craig <jcraig@apple.com> wrote:

>
> > On Nov 10, 2014, at 1:01 PM, Alexander Surkov <
> surkov.alexander@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Isn't the role="text" use case covered by other ARIA techniques? For
> example, will
> > <p>I <span role="img" aria-label="love">♥︎</span> New York.</p>
>
> Your example of only allowing the "img" role would result in the
> undesirable outcome of the user hearing the role description ("image") and
> other audible artifacts like pauses.
>
> Quoting from the next line:
> """
> In a screen reader using an ARIA 1.1-capable browsers, the user would hear
> "I love New York." On an ARIA 1.0 capable browser, the user might hear "I,
> love image, New York."
> """
>
>