Re: Tree sample code

What about putting the role="treeitem" on the span instead of the li? 
Sorry if this as been discussed already...

In dojo we did it this way
(http://archive.dojotoolkit.org/nightly/dojotoolkit/dijit/tests/test_Tree.html).

cheers,
David

Aaron M Leventhal wrote:
> Why do you do the aria-labelledby pointing into the span?
> Otherwise the accessible name for the top level items encompasses all the 
> subitems too, right?
>
> I didn't realize that we need to do that. I'm not sure if this is a better 
> way anymore -- it's confusing for authors to have to do that.
>
> Sigh :/
>
> - Aaron
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> From:
> James Craig <jcraig@apple.com>
> To:
> Aaron M Leventhal/Cambridge/IBM@IBMUS
> Cc:
> Jon Gunderson <jongund@illinois.edu>, Cynthia Shelly 
> <cyns@exchange.microsoft.com>, George Young <gcyoung@microsoft.com>, W3C 
> WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>
> Date:
> 09/08/2008 08:24 PM
> Subject:
> Re: Tree sample code
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>
> Aaron M Leventhal wrote:
>
> Cynthia, what do you think about having your tree widget have the keyboard 
> UI of a tree?
>
> I think the one I created serves that request, doesn't it? If it's missing 
> something, please advise.
>
> http://cookiecrook.com/test/aria/tree/ariatree.html
>
> You could still have it gracefully degrade into nested lists of links in 
> screen reader virtual buffers. 
>
> That's a good recommendation to make, but I don't think it's necessary to 
> do that amount of browser checking and rewriting for the example code, do 
> you? One caveat though. Instead of maintaining a list of user agents that 
> support ARIA, maintain a list of old user agents that are known to not 
> support ARIA. Assume the best of unknown user agent strings, and serve up 
> the full ARIA support.
>
> James
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Received on Tuesday, 9 September 2008 01:09:55 UTC