Re: ARIA setsize attribute

Hi, Hans.

I think it is intended to fix DOM structure if some amount of items
are not yet loaded.

In your tree example the author shouldn't be forced to use
aria-setsize and aria-posinset because they can be calculated easy
from aria-level attribute. Any way aria-setsize could be defined on
the treeitem parent in this case.

Alex.


On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 10:13 AM, Hans Hillen <hhillen@paciellogroup.com> wrote:
> From what I understand, aria-setsize is intended to fix dom structures where
> the set size can't be determined automatically from the DOM, e.g. a tree
> widget that is marked up as a flat html table and every row has a role of
> treeitem. In this case case the treeitems are not grouped by branch in the
> DOM structure, so you would need to apply aria-setsize aria-posinset to and
> aria-level  to every treeitem to fix this lack of structure.
> Wouldn't setting aria-setsize on a container be a bit pointless, because:
>
> If the container truly represents the set, then you wouldn't need the
> aria-setsize attribute anymore because the setsize can be determined from
> the DOM structure. If it can't be (for example because certain child roles
> are not DOM children of the container) then aria-owns should be used and the
> user agent should add it to the automatically calculated set size.
> If the container does not reflect the actual set (as in my tree example
> above), then aria-setsize wouldn't be applicable on this node.
>
> Unless I'm missing something?
> Regards,
>
> Hans Hillen
> TPG Europe
>
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> On Dec 12, 2009, at 2:29 PM, Alexander Surkov wrote:
>
> Hi.
>
> The ARIA specification says "This property is marked on the members of
> a set, not the container element that collects the members of the set.
> " (see http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/aria/states_and_properties#aria-setsize).
> However the same time it provides an example where the aria-setsize is
> used on the container element:
>
> <ul role="listbox" aria-setsize="16" aria-labelledby="label_fruit">
>  <li role="option" aria-posinset="1"> apples </li>
>
> I find the idea to define aria-setsize on the container element
> reasonable and useful and I would happy if the user agents would take
> into account the aria-setsize on the container only. But I'm fine with
> either way because currently aria-setsize is supposed to be used on
> the item.
>
> Can the spec be fixed?
>
> Thank you.
> Alex.
>
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>

Received on Saturday, 12 December 2009 02:37:34 UTC