Re: H91 changes

I think the table as it stands is confusing. Each operating system has its own convention for representing the role, accessible name, accessible description, state, etc., of an interactive control. Yet the table doesn’t recognize this, but nor does it say that it’s operating system specific or that it’s only an example.

The ARIA Accessibility API Mapping Guides provide this information  in full and for a range of operating systems.

Jason, I don’t think that is entirely accurate.  The name, value, and state are determined by HTML, not by the operating system. The mapping guide does also include ARIA and the focus of this technique is to rely on what HTML provides directly and allow the aria techniques to cover aria.  The guide does set out to do this for the role, I agree.  We aren’t setting out to make our own version of the mapping guide so we are planning for now to change the procedure so that instead of saying what it currently does:

"For each instance of links and form elements, check that the name, value, and state are specified as indicated in the table above."

The new procedure indicates that there are platform-specific roles to pay attention to, as follows:

"Check the source code and verify that a platform role equivalent to the role indicated in the table is used"

My suggestion would be to omit the table altogether, possibly with a reference to the Accessibility API Mapping Guides, which should enter Candidate Recommendation within the next month or so if the ARIA working group maintains its schedule.

My question to you is going to be “can you live with the H91 technique as proposed? (meaning with the table, and not referencing the not-final mapping document)”

AWK

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