Re: Mac mapping accessible role description of contentinfo

Thanks for the heads-up Andi. Indeed I missed the original.

Steve, I think changing that string is a reasonable request, but since this is OS X specific API, if you have a suggested improvement, feel free to suggest it on bugreport.apple.com or otherwise off list. It's outside the scope of discussion for a W3C list, since that section of UAIG just lists current implementations from the API vendors.

Thanks,
James


On Feb 17, 2012, at 10:00 AM, Andi Snow-Weaver <andisnow@us.ibm.com> wrote:

> Steve,
> 
> I don't see a response from James on the mailing list. So that this doesn't get lost, would you mind filing a public comment on the UAIG?
> 
> Andi
> 
> Andi Snow-Weaver
> Accessibility Standards Program Manager 
> Human Ability & Accessibility Center
> 
> Tel: +1-720-663-2789
> Email: andisnow@us.ibm.com
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> 
> Steve Faulkner ---01/29/2012 10:55:37 AM---Hi all, The AXRoleDescription for contentinfo seems a bit useless in the UA
> 
> From:	Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
> To:	W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>
> Cc:	James Craig <jcraig@apple.com>, Andi Snow-Weaver/Austin/IBM@IBMUS
> Date:	01/29/2012 10:55 AM
> Subject:	Mac mapping accessible role description of contentinfo
> 
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> The AXRoleDescription for contentinfo seems a bit useless in the UA implementation guide (and also implemented in webkit) given that  the "User agent should return a user-presentable, localized string value for the AXRoleDescription."
> 
> It is simply 'content' which could refer to anything. it is not descriptive or indicative of what the contentinfo landmark role is supposed to represent:
> 
> "A large perceivable region that contains information about the parent document.
> Examples of information included in this region of the page are copyrights and links to privacy statements." [1]
> 
> 
> 
> Any ideas about why this generic term is used for or is it a bug?
> 
> 
> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/roles#contentinfo
> [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-implementation/#ftn.note1
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> 
> 
> -- 
> with regards
> 
> Steve Faulkner
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Received on Friday, 17 February 2012 18:38:40 UTC