RE: suggest deprecating alertdialog role in ARIA 1.1

Hi Alex,

well I think offering something to be taken is better than doing nothing here.
Do you know reasons why AT doesn't use these states?

- Stefan

-----Original Message-----
From: Alexander Surkov [mailto:surkov.alexander@gmail.com] 
Sent: Mittwoch, 12. September 2012 08:34
To: Schnabel, Stefan
Cc: Joshue O Connor; Steve Faulkner; W3C WAI-XTECH; Richard Schwerdtfeger; Marco Zehe; James Teh
Subject: Re: suggest deprecating alertdialog role in ARIA 1.1

Hi, Stefan. Primarily I meant Firefox implementation but I didn't hear
that these states are used by AT.
Thank you.
Alex.

On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 8:47 PM, Schnabel, Stefan
<stefan.schnabel@sap.com> wrote:
> Alex,
>
> maps perfectly for me:
>
> additional" aria-dialogtype=Error/Warning/Info " ->  STATE_SYSTEM_ALERT_HIGH/MEDIUM/LOW
>
> I remember seeing those using Inspect32 with standard windows dialogs in the states enum listed, so I don't know what you mean with " but they weren't ever implemented."
>
> Stefan
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alexander Surkov [mailto:surkov.alexander@gmail.com]
> Sent: Freitag, 7. September 2012 11:39
> To: Schnabel, Stefan
> Cc: Joshue O Connor; Steve Faulkner; W3C WAI-XTECH; Richard Schwerdtfeger; Marco Zehe; James Teh
> Subject: Re: suggest deprecating alertdialog role in ARIA 1.1
>
> As far as I know there's no difference. MSAA has states like
> STATE_SYSTEM_ALERT_LOW/MEDIUM/HIGH but they weren't ever implemented.
> I don't recall anything similar in other standards. Anyway many AT
> APIs are extensible so it shouldn't be a problem.
>
> Alex.
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 6:23 PM, Schnabel, Stefan
> <stefan.schnabel@sap.com> wrote:
>> Hi Josh, Alexander
>>
>> good point having an additional" type=Error/Warning/Info " parameter in ARIA 1.1 for dialog.
>> But then we should go overboard and declare also modality (modal/non-modal dialog).
>>
>> Regarding API mappings, how is the situation in Windows MSAA and let's say typed MessageBoxes ?
>> Isn't there a standard way to map these additional properties without borrowing from aria-label?
>>
>> Regards
>> Stefan
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Joshue O Connor [mailto:joshue.oconnor@cfit.ie]
>> Sent: Freitag, 7. September 2012 11:16
>> To: Schnabel, Stefan
>> Cc: Steve Faulkner; W3C WAI-XTECH; Richard Schwerdtfeger; Marco Zehe; James Teh
>> Subject: Re: suggest deprecating alertdialog role in ARIA 1.1
>>
>> 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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