Re: suggest deprecating alertdialog role in ARIA 1.1

>>>> http://accessibility.oit.ncsu.edu/dev/jaws/debug/role-dialog/
>>>
>>> Interestingly neither the role="dialog" nor the role="alertdialog" are
>>> picked up by VoiceOver.
>>>
>>> James, is this a bug in VO?
>>
>>
>> My assumption is that it's not a bug, but it's difficult to tell because
>> it's only a partial (potentially invalid) test case. The dialog has no label
>> or labelledby relationship, and focus is not set in it based on some
>> triggered user action. There is a major functional difference between the
>> focus() method and a focus event, which that test case ignores.
>

That minimal test case was just to demonstrate the problem. Here is a
more robust implementation where I first discovered the problem.

http://accessibility.oit.ncsu.edu/training/aria/modal-window/

This is still a work in progress, but the behavior in IE is there.

Greg

Received on Wednesday, 12 September 2012 20:52:24 UTC