Re: Confusion about role of dialog

>From the perspective of interpreting the ARIA spec, why would you think 
this is a bug?

This is the behavior that Freedom Scientific interpreted as correct. As a 
child of window, it is not clear that a document mode is more appropriate 
than a application mode.

I have been involved in conversation with Freedom Scientific on this 
topic, and they are open to further discussion. There are many 
considerations, and while I would like to see JAWS behave differently, I 
do understand how the current behavior can be interpreted as correct.

Matt King
IBM I/T Chief Accessibility Strategist
IBM BT/CIO - Global Workforce and Web Process Enablement 
Phone: (503) 578-23329, Tie line: 731-7398
mattking@us.ibm.com



James Craig <jcraig@apple.com> 
Sent by: wai-xtech-request@w3.org
01/31/2011 03:00 PM

To
James Nurthen <james.nurthen@oracle.com>
cc
W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>
Subject
Re: Confusion about role of dialog






I would agree that this is a JAWS bug.


On Jan 31, 2011, at 7:26 AM, James Nurthen wrote:

We have noticed that when using a role of dialog JAWS is going into 
application mode. Is this correct behaviour or a JAWS bug? I see nothing 
in the spec which states that this should happen.

If this is NOT a JAWS bug, what role should we be using for a generic 
dialog container which may contain content (such as tables) as well as 
actions (buttons).

-- 
Regards, James 
<oracle_sig_logo.gif>
James Nurthen | Project Lead, Accessibility
Phone: +1 6505066781 | Mobile: +1 4159871918 
Oracle Corporate Architecture
500 Oracle Parkway | Redwood City, CA 94065 
<green-for-email-sig_0.gif> Oracle is committed to developing practices 
and products that help protect the environment

Received on Tuesday, 1 February 2011 04:14:27 UTC