Re: Element.getComputedRole()

Nit: you didn't address your #2 but I guess that would be done via some child accessor?

Cheers,
D

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alexander Surkov" <surkov.alexander@gmail.com>
> To: "Dominic Mazzoni" <dmazzoni@google.com>
> Cc: "Richard Schwerdtfeger" <schwer@us.ibm.com>, "PF" <public-pfwg@w3.org>
> Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2014 6:53:33 PM
> Subject: Re: Element.getComputedRole()
> 
> I think DOM Element interface extension is misdesign because of reasons:
> 1) that is performance issue because of potential misuse and overuse, it's
> so easy to hit accessibility properties among other methods on Element;
> 2) it doesn't make sense to expose accessible properties on every DOM
> element (like on inaccessible DOM elements) and Element API approach cannot
> be used for accessibles having no DOM elements.
> 3) it's not extensible as part of Element interface, that means you cannot
> reuse on text nodes, on document node, on JS accessible trees if they are
> ever invented.
> 
> I would design an Accessible interface instead following the accessibility
> desktop APIs.
> interface Accessible {
>   string role;
> };
> 
> Then DOM Window object can be extended by:
> interface Window {
>   Accessible getAccessibleFor(Node aNode);
> };
> 
> Thanks.
> Alexander.
> 
> 
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 5:51 PM, Dominic Mazzoni <dmazzoni@google.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > Sure, I think it's a good idea.
> >
> > How about getComputedAccessibleText next?
> >
> > In both Blink and WebKit I imagine we'll have to think about efficiency
> > when implementing this - typically we enable accessibility lazily and then
> > leave it on - at least for that page. We'd want to use the real
> > accessibility code to compute this, but then disable accessibility support
> > and clean up if it wasn't enabled previously.
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 1:19 PM, Richard Schwerdtfeger <schwer@us.ibm.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Dominic,
> >>
> >> We have an issue to add a getComputedRole() function on  Element. This
> >> would help application developers as well as accessibility test tools.
> >> Here
> >> is the issue:
> >>
> >> https://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/Group/track/issues/427
> >>
> >> Would you support implementing this feature in Chrome?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Rich
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Rich Schwerdtfeger
> >>
> >
> >
>

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