Re: aria-current concerns from Apple

On Sep 11, 2015, at 2:31 AM, Léonie Watson wrote:
> 
>> From: James Craig
>>> We have a concern with the aria-current proposal in its current form.
>>> 
>>> From an implementation perspective, the specification makes it difficult
>>> to do things like announcing the current element in a list when you
>>> first navigate to the beginning of that list.
> 
> How do you see this working from an AT user's perspective? Using your
> example, would a screen reader announce something like "List of N items, X
> is current TokenType"? For example, "List of 5 items, Home is current page".

Yes, but probably with slightly less verbosity. As intended, the current 
element would also be spoken as "current" when you navigate directly to it.

> It might be worth associating the two attribute names though? This for
> author usability as much as anything. Perhaps -current and -currenttype?

I'll answer with few more questions:

1. Would the type might be useful outside the context of @aria-current? 
2. Would the double "tt" make it easy for authors to misspell the attribute?
3. Has the working group considering making this attribute freeform text 
   instead of a token value? Consider it similar to @aria-roledescription.

James

Received on Friday, 11 September 2015 09:55:25 UTC