Correctly mapping role="search"

Quick comment redirected from the Mozilla dev-accessibility list:

http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.accessibility/browse_thread/thread/408df1f84a4ea469# 


The current editor's draft for ARIA says role="search" is "The search 
tool of a web document" (singular).

http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/aria/#search

1. What happens if a document offers multiple search tools? For example, 
you might have an online store that sells various categories of goods. A 
category page (say the "DVDs" category page) might feature both a 
sitewide search in the header and (later in the document) a 
category-specific search for DVDs.

2. What happens if a document repeats the same search tool in multiple 
locations, for example both the header and the footer of the page? This 
scenario suggests some degree of conflict between aiding discovery of 
areas of the page and identifying the area of the page currently subject 
to user interaction.

Ideally, the spec should make it clear what authors should do in these 
situations.

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Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Received on Monday, 6 October 2008 19:32:27 UTC