- From: Joshue O Connor <joshue.oconnor@cfit.ie>
- Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2012 10:16:24 +0100
- To: "Schnabel, Stefan" <stefan.schnabel@sap.com>
- CC: Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>, W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>, Richard Schwerdtfeger <schwer@us.ibm.com>, Marco Zehe <marco.zehe@googlemail.com>, James Teh <jamie@nvaccess.org>
Hi Stefan, > It is not the fault of the ARIA spec that alertdialog is poorly supported in AT. I completely agree but devs need practical solutions right now.. not around the corner and to my mind anything that makes the practical accessible web development easier - is a good thing. > Role "alertdialog" has been invented to indicate simple ok/yes/no/cancel messageboxes in contrast to more > elaborated complex dialogs with role "dialog". > > Therefore, I recommend *NOT* to remove the role entirely, in contrary, it should even be extended to reflect the > *type* of "alert" dialog Error/Warning/Info etc. and its usage according to this should be reflected in the AP Guidelines documentation. Not a bad idea. However, I suggest removing it and actually using the role="dialog" as a generic role and allowing it to take the argument dialog Error/Warning/Info etc. Cheers Josh
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