Re: Request to update the spec for the roles menu and menubar

It wouldn't be hard to have the Required Owned Elements area cloned from
parents just as many of the other rows in that table are.

On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 8:40 AM, Marco Zehe <mzehe@mozilla.com> wrote:

> I second Bryan's request. Having solely the inheritance hint is not
> enough, I believe. ARIA can be daunting as is, and such an implicit
> linkage is easily overlooked.
>
> Marco
>
> On 08.10.2014 15:36, Joseph Scheuhammer wrote:
> > Hi Bryan,
> >
> >> Hi,
> >> I've noticed that the roles in the Roles Model document for menu and
> >> menubar don't actually state that referenced children are required to
> >> include role=menuitem, role=menuitemcheckbox, or role=menuitemradio.
> >>
> >> http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/roles#menu
> >
> > Is the following what you mean?
> >
> > Each role has a characteristics table with a row named "Required Owned
> > Elements".  That row lists roles for the required children. The
> > required owned element for menu at the URL you cite are:
> > - group, which in turn contains menuitemradio elements,
> > - menuitem,
> > - menuitemcheckbox,
> > - menuitemradio.
> >
> >> http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/roles#menubar
> >>
> >
> > There are none listed for menubar.  However, the menubar role inherits
> > from the menu role, and implicitly has the same requirements in terms
> > of required owned elements.  Perhaps it's useful to repeat the
> > "Required Owned Elements" roles here, but then they would have to be
> > kept in sync.  Perhaps a link would help. That is, add a "Required
> > Owned Elements" row to the menubar characteristics table, but its
> > entry is a link back to the row in the menu characteristics table.
> > The link text could be "See menu characteristics table."
> >
> > Hope that helps.
> >
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