Re: Call for Consensus, send 4 rules to working group for approval

Hi Kathy,
      I have a couple of suggestions for the two rules for approval:


  1.   The rule  Summary element has non-empty accessible name<https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/act/rules/2t702h/proposed/ >

Based on HTML5<https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/interactive-elements.html#the-summary-element>,  The <summary> is only used as the first child of a <detail> element.  In other words, if a <summary> is not used as the first child of a <detail>, it’s invalid.  The use of <summary> in the Passed Examples 4 & 5, and Failed example 3 are in question.  The HTML violations can be tested in w3c’s Markup Validation service<https://validator.w3.org/>.   ACT test cases should only use valid HTML examples.



  1.  The rule ARIA required owned elements<https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/act/rules/bc4a75/proposed/ >

The Inapplicable example 1:  <ul><li>item 1</li></ul>.  This should be a Passed example.  The implicit roles for <ul> and <li> are ‘list’ and ‘listitem’, and the owned element relationship is satisfied in the example.  Whether an element has an explicit role or not shouldn’t be the “inapplicable” condition.

The Passed examples 3 & 4: <li role=’none’></li>.  Based on Aria in HTML<https://www.w3.org/TR/html-aria/>, the role “none” is invalid for the <li>.  Suggest changing to something else, like <div role=’none’></div> to make the Passed example valid.

Regards,

Shunguo Yan, Ph.D.
Accessibility Technology & Innovation



From: Katherine Eng <eng@access-board.gov>
Date: Monday, February 10, 2025 at 4:54 PM
To: ACT Task Force (Only) <public-wcag-act@w3.org>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Call for Consensus, send 4 rules to working group for approval
Hi everyone, We think the following rules are ready for approval and publication: Summary element has non-empty accessible name ARIA required owned elements Although these two rules have already been through CFC and approved (in March 2024),

Hi everyone,

We think the following rules are ready for approval and publication:


  1.  Summary element has non-empty accessible name<https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/act/rules/2t702h/proposed/ >
  2.  ARIA required owned elements<https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/act/rules/bc4a75/proposed/ >

Although these two rules have already been through CFC and approved (in March 2024), it’s been a while so please take another look:

  1.  Element with role attribute has required states and properties<https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/act/rules/4e8ab6/proposed/ >
  2.  Orientation of the page is not restricted using CSS transforms<https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/act/rules/b33eff/proposed/ >

Please respond with +1 if you support requesting approval to publish these 4 rules or -1 if you oppose. Call for Consensus ends Feb 24.




Thanks,

Kathy Eng
Senior ICT Accessibility Specialist
U.S. Access Board<https://www.access-board.gov/ict >

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