Re: ARIA setsize attribute

Hi, Hans.

I thought it works. We must have a bug. If you don't mind then please file it.

I think it shouldn't be a table element because I meant logical parent like

<table role="treegrid">
  <tr role="row" aria-level="1" aria-setsize="4">
    <td role="gridcell" aria-posinset="1">item1</td>
  </tr>
  <tr role="row" aria-level="2">
    <td role="gridcell">item1.1</td>
  </tr>
  <tr role="row" aria-level="1">
    <td role="gridcell">item2</td>
  </tr>
</table>

Alex.


On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Hans Hillen <hhillen@paciellogroup.com> wrote:
> Hi Alex,
>
>>
>> I think it is intended to fix DOM structure if some amount of items
>> are not yet loaded.
> OK
>>
>> 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.
> I see, I don't think this is this something Firefox does at the moment? I've just removed the aria-posinset and aria-setsize from my code in the Firebug UI (which is what that example was based on), and it stopped correctly exposing the tree structure.
>
>> Any way aria-setsize could be defined on
>> the treeitem parent in this case.
>
> But in this example the treeitem's parent would be the table element itself, which represents the entire tree rather than a particular tree branch.
>
> Regards,
> Hans
>
>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>

Received on Saturday, 12 December 2009 03:00:25 UTC