- From: Joseph Scheuhammer <clown@alum.mit.edu>
- Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 12:58:46 -0500
- To: James Craig <jcraig@apple.com>
- CC: James Teh <jamie@nvaccess.org>, Bryan Garaventa <bryan.garaventa@whatsock.com>, mick@nvaccess.org, Sailesh Panchang <sailesh.panchang@deque.com>, "Schnabel, Stefan" <stefan.schnabel@sap.com>, WAI XTech <wai-xtech@w3.org>
On 2014-02-13 6:09 PM, James Craig wrote:
> You may be able to convince the NVDA developers copied here that it would be better to only speak the computed label here, but NVDA’s behavior is theirs to decide, not the W3C’s to specify, so calling this a bug is not the right approach.
I wasn't trying to convince anyone of that, nor am I saying there is a
bug here anywhere. James Teh noted that it was unclear from the spec
whether an author could overrule names based on contents.. My point was
that the spec does identify cases where authors can so overrule, at
least with respect to the name computed and exposed through a11y APIs.
Of course that doesn't apply to ATs, because *nothing* in ARIA 1.0
dictates what ATs actually do with the information. ARIA 1.0 is all
about the browsers.
As for whether it should stay that way, I haven't made my mind up yet.
--
;;;;joseph.
'A: After all, it isn't rocket science.'
'K: Right. It's merely computer science.'
- J. D. Klaun -
Received on Friday, 14 February 2014 17:59:14 UTC