Re: Operable Grid Cell

Hi. I think I prefer improving ARIA markup flexibility over introduction
the new roles. So being able to specify bunch of roles could be a nice
solution here, like role="gridcell button". Also I like the idea to extend
list of allowed attributes for roles like having aria-pressed on gridcell
would point out the gridcell also has button behavior. (It might not work
for this particular case since aria-pressed is used for toggle buttons
though).
On Sep 29, 2014 10:50 AM, "Yura Zenevich" <yzenevich@mozilla.com> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I am currently looking at numerous calendar widget implementations that
> have month views that look like grids. ARIA roles grid and gridcell are
> used in some of these implementations. The user is able to click/tap each
> grid cell to get access to the list of events for a particular date. The AT
> user, however, will not be able to perform this interaction with the out of
> the box implementation:
>
> when working with operable lists, the implementer will generally opt in
> for using 'listbox' and 'option' roles in favour of static list and
> listitem. However, there's no such alternative when using 'grid' and
> 'gridcell'.
>
> The author would have to add extra workarounds (via event handlers on
> specific grid cells instead of using event bubbling, etc) to make it
> operable by the ATs. It would be really great if it was possible via the
> readily available attributes in the HTML.
>
> Some possible solutions are as follows:
>
> * Using a new gridcelloption role or similar (just like option in the
> listbox)
> * Using an aria-pressed attribute, that would indicate that the grid cell
> is operable, if present (both with true and false values).
>
> Perhaps there are other working implementations our there that you might
> know of?
>
> Thanks
>
> Yura Zenevich
> Mozilla
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