RE: WAI ARIA on mobile

Hi,

At 23:44 24/07/2009, Victor Tsaran wrote:
>Hi Chris,
>Thanks for the reference link  -- very helpful.
>We are still left with a basic problem that exists on mobile phones, 
>i.e. absence of an accessibility API.

RIM also has an accessibility API:
<http://na.blackberry.com/eng/deliverables/6022/net/rim/device/api/ui/accessibility/package-summary.html>.
It has a list of roles at
<http://na.blackberry.com/eng/deliverables/6022/net/rim/device/api/ui/accessibility/AccessibleRole.html>.
I haven't tried to map them to WAI-ARIA.

Best regards,

Christophe Strobbe

>On the desktop we have the browser mapping ARIA roles and states to 
>already-existing properties in the underlying accessibility API. We 
>do not have such luxury on mobile phone, neither S60 nor WM platforms.
>I am presuming that with the introduction of Voiceover screen reader 
>into IPhone 3GS, Apple accessibility API travelled with it as well. J
>
>Thanks,
>Victor
>
>
>
>From: wai-xtech-request@w3.org [mailto:wai-xtech-request@w3.org] On 
>Behalf Of Chris Blouch
>Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 8:35 AM
>To: Victor Tsaran
>Cc: David Todd; wai-xtech@w3.org
>Subject: Re: WAI ARIA on mobile
>
>It would appear that ARIA attributes which define types of objects 
>in the page are the bulk of the ARIA support in Safari 4. List is here:
>
><http://developer.apple.com/safari/library/documentation/AppleApplications/Reference/SafariHTMLRef/Articles/AccessibilityRoles.html>http://developer.apple.com/safari/library/documentation/AppleApplications/Reference/SafariHTMLRef/Articles/AccessibilityRoles.html
>
>So things like button, img, link, checkbox are supported. Live 
>regions, landmarks and other ARIA-specific constructs appear to be absent.
>
>CB
>
>Victor Tsaran wrote:
>I believe Webkit exposes some ARIA roles but not too many, to my knowledge.
>See 
><http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog>http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog 
>for more information.
>
>Regards,
>Victor
>
>From: <mailto:wai-xtech-request@w3.org>wai-xtech-request@w3.org 
>[mailto:wai-xtech-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of David Todd
>Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 8:47 AM
>To: <mailto:wai-xtech@w3.org>wai-xtech@w3.org
>Subject: RE: WAI ARIA on mobile
>
>
>Victor,
>
>You mention that these platforms don't support ARIA landmarks.  I'm 
>guessing these platforms don't support ARIA at all yet.  Right?
>
>David Todd
>IBM Human Ability & Accessibility Center
>
>
><mailto:wai-xtech-request@w3.org>wai-xtech-request@w3.org wrote on 
>07/21/2009 06:33:10 PM:
>
> > [image removed]
> >
> > RE: WAI ARIA on mobile
> >
> > Victor Tsaran
> >
> > to:
> >
> > Boland Jr., Frederick E., w3c-wai-pf
> >
> > 07/21/2009 06:36 PM
> >
> > Sent by:
> >
> > <mailto:wai-xtech-request@w3.org>wai-xtech-request@w3.org
> >
> > Cc:
> >
> > wai-xtech
> >
> > Two things:
> > 1. S60 and Safari, which are the only two fully accessible browsers on
> > Nokia and IPhone platforms do not yet support ARIA landmarks because
> > they are not exposed by the Webkit, an engine that powers both browsers.
> > Neither IPhone's Voiceover nor Nokia's Talks and Mobilespeak understand
> > ARIA landmarks even if they were available.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Victor
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: <mailto:wai-xtech-request@w3.org>wai-xtech-request@w3.org 
> [mailto:wai-xtech-request@w3.org] On
> > Behalf Of Boland Jr., Frederick E.
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 1:11 PM
> > To: <mailto:w3c-wai-pf@w3.org>w3c-wai-pf@w3.org
> > Cc: <mailto:wai-xtech@w3.org>wai-xtech@w3.org
> > Subject: FW: WAI ARIA on mobile
> >
> > Fyi for consideration and discussion
> > Best, Tim Boland NIST
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: <mailto:w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org>w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org 
> [mailto:w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org] On
> > Behalf Of Phil Archer
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 4:27 AM
> > To: <mailto:w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
> > Cc: Shawn Henry; Henny Swan
> > Subject: WAI ARIA on mobile
> >
> > Greetings from Mobile Land...
> >
> > One of the participants in our Introduction to W3C Mobile Web Best
> > Practices course [1], Jeff Van Campen of the London Web Standards Group
> > [2], raised this issue on the discussion forum. As that forum isn't
> > public, I'm copying his mail here as I don't know the answer and I'm
> > interested to know!
> >
> > === Jeff's message begins===
> >
> > I was at WordCamp UK over the weekend (along with fellow Mobile Best
> > Practice students Laura Kalbag and Gicela Morales).
> >
> > As a part of a hacking session Laura, myself and a few other WordPresser
> > were looking at modifying Kubrick, the default WordPress theme, to work
> > in a mobile context.
> >
> > One of the issues we ran into is that Kubrick includes WAI-ARIA roles as
> > of WordPress 2.8.
> >
> > As we were working, we removed them, as this made validation easier.
> >
> > I understand that WAI-ARIA isn't supported on any mobile browsers yet,
> > but I'd like to add them to the code for two reasons:
> >
> > 1. So that the code is future proof
> > 2. So that they are discoverable by people examining the code, who may
> > not know about WAI-ARIA
> >
> > That brings me to two questions:
> >
> > 1. Does anyone know of any issues with WAI-ARIA roles in existing mobile
> > browsers?
> > 2. Is it likely that WAI-ARIA will be included as a module in a future
> > version of XHTML Basic?
> >
> > === ends ===
> >
> >
> > [1] 
> <http://www.w3.org/2009/03/mobitrain_course_description.html>http://www.w3.org/2009/03/mobitrain_course_description.html
> > [2] http://londonwebstandards.org/
> >
> >
> >

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