Re: The aria-hidden attribute not being honored within naming calculation for parent controls?

hi cynthia, i did
https://connect.microsoft.com/IE/feedback/details/1093490/the-accessible-name-for-table-cells-in-a-grid-includes-content-hidden-using-aria-hidden-true

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Regards

SteveF
HTML 5.1 <http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/>

On 23 January 2015 at 02:33, Cynthia Shelly <cyns@microsoft.com> wrote:

>  Brian, did you submit that bug on http://connect.microsoft.com/ie ?  Can
> you send me a link to it?
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> Thanks,
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> Cynthia
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> *From:* Steve Faulkner [mailto:faulkner.steve@gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Monday, January 19, 2015 1:54 AM
> *To:* Bryan Garaventa
> *Cc:* W3C WAI Protocols & Formats
> *Subject:* Re: The aria-hidden attribute not being honored within naming
> calculation for parent controls?
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> Hi Bryan,
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> submitted bug on Firefox
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1123248
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> bug also needs to be filed on IE
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> Works correctly in chrome on windows.
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> Regards
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> SteveF
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> HTML 5.1 <http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/>
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> On 17 January 2015 at 00:31, Bryan Garaventa <
> bryan.garaventa@ssbbartgroup.com> wrote:
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>  Hi,
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> I wrote the attached grid sample to identify a bug in JAWS+IE where
> supporting attributes like aria-sort, aria-readonly, and aria-haspopup, are
> not being conveyed when Forms Mode is active, and discovered another issue
> in the accessibility tree in both IE and FF.
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> The grid consists of column nodes, which include a span tag that contains
> a Unicode down arrow symbol, marked with aria-hidden=”true” to remove it
> from the accessibility tree, which doesn’t remove it actually but flags it
> as hidden.
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> So, regardless, the naming calculation still sets the accessible name for
> each columnheader node as the text + the hidden symbol text, even though it
> should not be included since I am explicitly telling it not to using
> aria-hidden=”true”. This results in JAWS announcing the hidden symbol text
> as part of the label despite my attempts to keep this out of the accessible
> name for that node.
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> So I guess my question is, shouldn’t nodes marked up with
> aria-hidden=”true” be omitted from the accessible name calculation within
> the accessibility tree?
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> Thanks,
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> Bryan
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