Re: name computation for role="checkbox"

I think the issue is that certain roles are not expected by the assistive
technologies to have children. So technically you can do a checkbox that
way but it might be confusing for AT. On the other hand a slider role [1]
doesn't allow name from subtree, however it doesn't look much different
from checkbox in terms of leafability.

[1] http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/aria/roles#slider

On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 12:30 PM, Dominic Mazzoni <dmazzoni@google.com>
wrote:

> What's wrong with something like this, assuming it has css to make it look
> like a checkbox and js to make it behave like one?
>
> <div tabIndex=0 role="checkbox" aria-checked="false">I agree to the
> license terms</div>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 4:48 AM, Alexander Surkov <
> surkov.alexander@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi, the spec says [1] that role="checkbox" name is computed from
>> "contents". Is there an use case for ARIA checkbox name computed from
>> subtree?
>>
>>
>> Thanks.
>> Alexander.
>>
>>
>> [1] http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/aria/roles#checkbox
>>
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