- From: Al Gilman <Alfred.S.Gilman@IEEE.org>
- Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 16:40:40 -0400
- To: "Becky Gibson" <Becky_Gibson@notesdev.ibm.com>, wai-xtech@w3.org
At 3:21 PM -0400 11 04 2007, Becky Gibson wrote: >The dojo toolkit has a color palette for selecting colors. We are planning >to implement this as a rectangular image map with color blocks organized >in a table layout. Using an image map allows the actual colors to still >remain visible in high contrast mode and it can be made keyboard >accessible. I am wondering how to identify this component? There is no >explicit role for color picker but it seems there should be some role >given to the component so the user has some idea about navigation. Does >it make sense to mark this up as a table or grid? Although it is only a >grid/table by virtue of the implementation strategy. There is also an >imggroup role but I'm not sure that makes sense either? Does this even >need an additional role beyond the image map itself? If you are picking colors from a discrete palette, you might consider a role of 'select' since it doesn't sound as though you would let this be multi-selectable. Al > >Becky Gibson >Web Accessibility Architect > >IBM Emerging Internet Technologies >5 Technology Park Drive >Westford, MA 01886 >Voice: 978 399-6101; t/l 333-6101 >Email: gibsonb@us.ibm.com
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