Re: tooltip role

Hi all,

I did some further testing on Mac OSX lion with Safari 6 and voiceOver
enabled and found that a native tooltip creates an 'help tag created'
notification when displayed, but the ARIA tooltip does not.

regards
SteveF

On 9 October 2012 09:51, Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Hi all, while attempting (and failing) to get an ARIA tooltip to be
> announced by screen readers across browsers I had a look at the ARIA
> implementation guide for expected behaviour in browsers.
>
> It was unclear to me how tooltip show/hide events are expected to be
> processed.
>
> What I found was that in Firefox the ARIA tooltip implemention was the
> same as the native tootlip implemention i.e
>
> ARIA tooltip
> OBJ_SHOW     Name="This is the tip" Role=tool tip State=normal
> OBJ_HIDE     Name="This is the tip" Role=tool tip State=invisible,offscreen
>
> native tooltip
> OBJ_SHOW     Name="native tooltip" Role=tool tip State=read only,floating
> OBJ_HIDE     (hidden)
>
> this was not the case in IE or Chrome on windows nether of which fired any
> events when the ARIA tooltip was shown/hidden
>
> test file https://dl.dropbox.com/u/377471/tests/tooltip-gez.html
>
>
> I haven't checked events fired in Safari 6 on Mac OS Lion with Voiceover,
> but can confirm that the ARIA tooltip in the test case file does not get
> announced by VoiceOver.
>
> From testing so far it appears that  ARIA tooltip role does not yet have
> interoperable implementation. Is that a fair assessment? and if so is it at
> an at risk feature?
>
>
> --
> with regards
>
> Steve Faulkner
> Technical Director - TPG
>
> www.paciellogroup.com | www.HTML5accessibility.com |
> www.twitter.com/stevefaulkner
> HTML5: Techniques for providing useful text alternatives -
> dev.w3.org/html5/alt-techniques/
> Web Accessibility Toolbar - www.paciellogroup.com/resources/wat-ie-about.html
>
>
>


-- 
with regards

Steve Faulkner
Technical Director - TPG

www.paciellogroup.com | www.HTML5accessibility.com |
www.twitter.com/stevefaulkner
HTML5: Techniques for providing useful text alternatives -
dev.w3.org/html5/alt-techniques/
Web Accessibility Toolbar - www.paciellogroup.com/resources/wat-ie-about.html