Re: ISSUE: ARIA Draft UA Conformance

+1 but tweaked the wording slightly.

User agents MUST fire events for ARIA property changes if an  
appropriate event exists in the platform's accessibility API.


Aaron M Leventhal wrote:

> 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
>
>
> James Craig wrote:
>
>> 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.
>

Received on Tuesday, 1 July 2008 17:46:24 UTC