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

Is there a real-world use case that does this? It seems like a pretty complicated example to discuss as a theoretical problem. 

For example, what's the real-world need to focus a row group?

James


> On Aug 26, 2015, at 9:02 AM, Joseph Scheuhammer <clown@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> 
> 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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