- From: <josh@interaccess.ie>
- Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2016 12:59:15 +0000
- To: "Sailesh Panchang" <spanchang02@yahoo.com>, "Patrick H. Lauke" <redux@splintered.co.uk>
- Cc: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
Thanks Sailesh. Lets focus on 4.1.1 for this thread *grin. Josh ------ Original Message ------ From: "Sailesh Panchang" <spanchang02@yahoo.com> To: "Patrick H. Lauke" <redux@splintered.co.uk> Cc: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org Sent: 18/07/2016 13:49:17 Subject: Re: Automated A11y non-issues and SC Parsing 4.1.1 >Yes it is a false positive if same id does mmot occur at same time on >the page. FPs occur for other SCs too so all need to be addressed by >2.1? > >Sailesh. ...Sent from my iPhone > >> On Jul 18, 2016, at 8:34 AM, Patrick H. Lauke >><redux@splintered.co.uk> wrote: >> >>> On 18/07/2016 13:24, Joshue O Connor wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I have a client which uses multiple IDs in their UI widgets - these >>>IDs >>> are 'active' at different times for different reasons depending >>>where >>> the user is within a 'flow'. It hasn't demonstrated any a11y >>>problems, >>> but is technically a fail of SC 4.1.1. >> >> I would think that in older AT (which takes a copy of the DOM/scrapes >>the source) this may have caused a problem. But in modern scenarios >>(where the information is obtained via the accessibility tree/API) >>this sort of dynamic change of whatever the element with a particular >>id is should be fine. I can also confirm that I've not seen any actual >>problems with these sorts of things (where two elements have same id, >>but one is always display:none'd for instance) in practice. >> >>> My client is doing really good work in terms of their a11y approach, >>>and >>> I really don't want to fail them on this. But these 'errors' are >>>called >>> out by automated tools, and will be visible to anyone else testing >>>the >>> site. I just can't say they have resulted in a problem at all. >>> >>> What would you guys/gals do? Do this also represent a 'false >>>negative' >>> that we should address in 2.1 or Silver? >> >> It's definitely a false positive in my book, and a good example of >>where tools which simply analyze the source (rather than the actual >>DOM tree) will struggle. >> >> P >> -- >> Patrick H. Lauke >> >> www.splintered.co.uk | https://github.com/patrickhlauke >> http://flickr.com/photos/redux/ | http://redux.deviantart.com >> twitter: @patrick_h_lauke | skype: patrick_h_lauke >> > >
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