- From: Joseph Scheuhammer <clown@alum.mit.edu>
- Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 14:48:00 -0400
- To: david bolter <david.bolter@gmail.com>
- CC: Joseph Scheuhammer <clown@alum.mit.edu>, Andi Snow-Weaver <andisnow@us.ibm.com>, cyns@microsoft.com, jcraig@apple.com, lweiss@microsoft.com, wai-xtech@w3.org, w3c-wai-pf@w3.org
David,
> If a user tries to programmatically set focus to a checkbox they don't
> want to actually check/uncheck it do they? (Not sure if you were
> implying that)
No, they don't want to check /uncheck simply by focussing. To be clear,
I wasn't implying that. I was wondering if one could leverage what the
spec suggests in this particular context (the aria-activedescendant issue).
BTW, since checking/unchecking is undesirable in this case, I think that
is what is behind the restriction in the UAIG text, where it talks about
focus and aria-activedescendant (my emphasis) [1]:
> User agents SHOULD NOT fire an activation event on elements with the
> role button, *checkbox*, ...
[1] http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/aria-implementation/#keyboard-focus_at
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;;;;joseph
'I had some dreams, they were clowns in my coffee. Clowns in my coffee.'
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Received on Thursday, 28 April 2011 18:49:09 UTC