Re: ISSUE: ARIA Draft UA Conformance

Do we want to say anything about property changes?

Something like:
"User agents must fire events for ARIA property changes, where an 
appropriate event exists for the platform accessibility API being mapped 
to."

- Aaron






From:
David Bolter <david.bolter@utoronto.ca>
To:
James Craig <jcraig@apple.com>
Cc:
W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>
Date:
07/01/2008 05:33 AM
Subject:
Re: ISSUE: ARIA Draft UA Conformance




+1

D
James Craig wrote:
>
>
> http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/aria/#uaconf
>
> Current wording:
>
> User agents SHOULD expose role, state, and property information 
> provided by the author to the platform accessibility API (using the 
> values as determined in steps 2 and 3 above). Refer to Mapping States 
> and Properties to Accessibility APIs ([ARIA-PRACTICES], Section 12.1) 
> for guidance about how to expose this information. This requirement 
> parallels User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 Section 6.3: 
> Programmatic Access to non-HTML/XML Content ([UAAG], Section 6.3), 
> except that it applies even to HTML and XML content.
>
>
> I move that user agents MUST expose the information if an appropriate 
> mapping exists:
>
> User agents MUST expose role, state, and property information provided 
> by the author to the platform accessibility API (using the values as 
> determined in steps 2 and 3 above) if an appropriate mapping exists. 
> Refer to Mapping States and Properties to Accessibility APIs 
> ([ARIA-PRACTICES], Section 12.1) for guidance about how to expose this 
> information. This requirement parallels User Agent Accessibility 
> Guidelines 1.0 Section 6.3: Programmatic Access to non-HTML/XML 
> Content ([UAAG], Section 6.3), except that it applies even to HTML and 
> XML content.
>
>