Re: progressbar role

Progressbar is the incorrect role. Slider is the role you're looking for.

Regards
Shane Anderson


On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 1:32 PM, Michael A. Peters <mpeters@domblogger.net>
wrote:

> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility/A
> RIA/ARIA_Techniques/Using_the_progressbar_role
>
> I have custom html5 media player, with a custom progress bar.
>
> According to the mozilla page, it says that user agents should read the
> the progress every time it updates - but when the progress is for how much
> of the media has played it seems that would compete with the audio from the
> media itself.
>
> Should I not use role="progressbar" in the context of media with audio, or
> is there maybe a way to tell it to be quiet unless the user asks it for the
> current progress?
>
> I am wondering if the context of a media player is maybe wrong for that
> particular role.
>
> I currently update the title attribute of the progress bar to identify the
> percentage of the media that has played, is that good enough or do I really
> need to give it a progressbar role?
>
> Thank you for suggestions.
>
> I'm not using a native html5 progress tag because I need a few things it
> doesn't support.
>
>