RE: aria-level a required property for role="heading" or a supported property with an RFC SHOULD for authors

Could there be a value that would indicate an automatically generate a computed level, for example:

aria-level="auto" would mean use the heading level of the previous heading in document order

aria-level="subsection" would mean use one heading level down from the previous heading in document order
Jon


From: Richard Schwerdtfeger [mailto:schwer@us.ibm.com]
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Subject: RE: aria-level a required property for role="heading" or a supported property with an RFC SHOULD for authors


Yes, but lack of a level provides no level context and it does not align well with an HTML document whose native elements ALL provide a level. The question is not what the default behavior is when you leave it off but rather what we should be requiring authors to do. I think Mac does the best you can do in the absence of a level.


Rich Schwerdtfeger

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Date: 06/18/2015 04:19 PM
Subject: RE: aria-level a required property for role="heading" or a supported property  with an RFC SHOULD for authors

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+1, I have previously suggested that this is the better response (holy cow
James, we're going 2 for 2 :-) ).

Leonie did some very quick real-time testing during our call, and (she will
correct me if I am wrong) she noted that in Firefox with NVDA (?) when the
level was not specified, it defaulted to "level 2" (which I think is a wrong
decision). Not sure where that decision is happening however, but suspect
it's in the screen reader.

JF


> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Craig [mailto:jcraig@apple.com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2015 2:14 PM
> To: Joseph Scheuhammer
> Cc: WAI Protocols & Formats; Dominic Mazzoni; Alexander Surkov; David
Bolter;
> Cynthia Shelly
> Subject: Re: aria-level a required property for role="heading" or a
supported
> property with an RFC SHOULD for authors
>
> VoiceOver used to speak "Heading Level 0, text content" but we fixed that
a few
> years ago. It now speaks "Heading, text content"
>
> James
>
> > On Jun 18, 2015, at 2:04 PM, Joseph Scheuhammer <clown@alum.mit.edu<mailto:clown@alum.mit.edu>>
> wrote:
> >
> > On 2015-06-18 3:06 PM, Bryan Garaventa wrote:
> >> Just to simplify my view, if heading levels are optional, ATs and
browsers will
> never provide consistent UIs, because they will always do something
different by
> guessing.
> >
> > Tangent:  What do Chrome, FF, IE, and Safari, do, in fact, when faced
with
> "heading", but no aria-level?  For example,
> >
> > <div role="heading>...</div>
> >
> > How is the level property mapped?
> >
> > --
> > ;;;;joseph.
> >
> > 'Array(16).join("wat" - 1) + " Batman!"'
> >           - G. Bernhardt -
> >
>