Re: role="text" mappings

Hi Rich,

 > Shouldn't the role="text" mapping include the 
AccessibleHypertextText2 and hypertext , similar to the <p> element in 
HTML? for IA2
 >
 > Also, similar comments for ATK.

1.  This is actually a bigger issue.  HTML-AAM adds the relevant 
interfaces from IA2 and ATK/AT-SPI for all their mappings.  But, neither 
the Core-AAM nor the former UAIG did.  There is an issue or bugzilla 
that Jason (cc'ed) opened suggesting we add those to the core mapping 
tables.

I have no objection to doing so, other than it's tedious and time 
consuming.  Let's address it at next week's AAPI meeting.  I'm cc'ing 
Alex and Cynthia for their thoughts -- Cynthia, are there simliar 
"interfaces" in UIA?

2. We spent the better part of one of our AAPI meetings on whether 
role="text" should support IA2 and ATK's AccessibleText interfaces. The 
problem was that the character/word information is problematic in 
certain cases, e.g.,

<span role="text" aria-label="3 of 5 stars">★★★☆☆︎</span></p>

The string "3 of 5 stars" has four words and 13 characters, whereas 
"★★★☆☆︎" is one (?) word with five characters.

Joanie's suggestion was along the lines of stating that role="text" 
might implement an accessible text interface, with the caveat that it 
may not make sense in all cases.  (I'm certain I've not captured 
Joanie's thoughts accurately here).

3.  Should something with role="text" also support a hypertext 
interface?  I don't see anything in the definition of the role to 
suggest that.  I'm confused:  wouldn't a role="link" be needed to 
support hypertext?

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