Re: Action-1355: Proposed revision

I disagree with this proposal. There are instances of grids where 
selecting the columnheader or rowheader does NOT select the cells of the 
column. This is certainly the case for pivot tables.
I'm not sure what problem this is attempting to solve, but what happens 
when a columnheader or rowheader is selected is very much up to the 
author of the application. We should not be prescribing what this 
selection should actually mean.

Regards,
James


On 9/16/2014 3:51 PM, Richard Schwerdtfeger wrote:
>
> For the ARIA specification, where the grid role is defined I propose 
> the following text change in response to this action:
>
> Add the following text in grid role definition of the ARIA 1.1 spec:
>
> When aria-selected="true" is applied to an element having a role of 
> rowheader or columnheader, that is owned by a grid with 
> aria-multiselectable="true", the gridcells corresponding to the 
> respective row or column must also expose the aria-selected state of 
> "true", unless overridden by aria-selected="false" on a gridcell in 
> the corresponding row or column.
>
>
> To this paragraph:
> gridcell elements with the aria-selected attribute set can be selected 
> for user interaction, and if the aria-multiselectable attribute of the 
> grid is set to true, multiple cells in the grid may be selected. Grids 
> may be used for spreadsheets like those in desktop spreadsheet 
> applications.
> </change>
>
>
> I recommend that the text of this revised paragraph also apply to the 
> role treegrid.
>
>
> Please refer to the aria editor's draft for the role grid:
> http://rawgit.com/w3c/aria/master/spec/aria.html#grid
>
>
> Rich Schwerdtfeger
>

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