aria-transforms?

• From: David Bolter <david.bolter@utoronto.ca>
• Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 10:26:05 -0500
• To: "wai-xtech@w3.org" <wai-xtech@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <494D0E8D.2060007@utoronto.ca>

Hi all,

This might be an ARIA 2.0 thing.

I'm just throwing this out there. Maybe it is my Saturday morning coffee
talking but I got to thinking about DHTML inline edits, and I started
thinking of ways we might come up with a more general solution for
things that appear to transform themselves.

aria-transforms=[aria role(s)]

So in the case of an inline edit, one could mark the span like this:

<span role="button" aria-transforms="textbox">change this text</span>

Thoughts?  Is it the coffee?  I was also thinking about an
aria-hastextbox, akin to a haspopup, but that is a less general solution
IMO.

cheers,
David

Received on Saturday, 20 December 2008 15:25:45 UTC