Re: Agenda: August 27, 2015 WAI-PF ARIA Caucus (Correction I am still chairing this week)

Hi James,

On 2015-08-25 12:40 PM, Richard Schwerdtfeger wrote:
>
> *Agenda: August 27, 2015 WAI-PF ARIA Caucus*
> ...
>
>     6. Action 1578 Discuss Issue 700 with the Working group (Should
>     rowgroup, tbody, and thead have any role mapping in AAPIs? should
>     there be an accessible object?
>     or, should it be a generic object? (Rich)
>       o I believe we discussed this and we made the "group" role the
>         generic role. This would be consistent with IE and Safari
>         mappings. Shouldn't this be closed?
>       o _https://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/Group/track/issues/700_
>       o _https://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/Group/track/actions/1578_
>


Rich notes above, "I believe we discussed this and we made the 'group' 
role the generic role".  I can confirm that the AAPI group decided to 
change the mappings for role="rowgroup" to a generic group-like role for 
the various platforms [1].  The reason is that authors can create a grid 
with rowgroup elements that are focusable and interactive (e.g., respond 
to clicks) [2].

However, the statement, "This would be consistent with IE and Safari 
mappings" is not correct with respect to Safari.  The current AXAPI 
mapping for rowgroup is "Not mapped".  There is a webkit bug in this 
regard [3].  What is the current thinking regarding AXAPI's mapping of 
the rowgroup role?

Thanks.

[1] http://w3c.github.io/aria/core-aam/core-aam.html#role-map-rowgroup
[2] http://clown.idrc.ocad.ca/Fluid/aria/FocusableRowGroup.html
[3] https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=146239

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Received on Wednesday, 26 August 2015 16:02:34 UTC