- From: Joseph Scheuhammer <clown@alum.mit.edu>
- Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 11:33:53 -0400
- To: Richard Schwerdtfeger <schwer@us.ibm.com>
- Cc: W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>, Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs@igalia.com>, public-svg-a11y@w3.org, Alexander Surkov <surkov.alexander@gmail.com>, Cynthia Shelly <cyns@microsoft.com>, Jason Kiss <jason@accessibleculture.org>
Hi Rich,
> Shouldn't the role="text" mapping include the
AccessibleHypertextText2 and hypertext , similar to the <p> element in
HTML? for IA2
>
> Also, similar comments for ATK.
1. This is actually a bigger issue. HTML-AAM adds the relevant
interfaces from IA2 and ATK/AT-SPI for all their mappings. But, neither
the Core-AAM nor the former UAIG did. There is an issue or bugzilla
that Jason (cc'ed) opened suggesting we add those to the core mapping
tables.
I have no objection to doing so, other than it's tedious and time
consuming. Let's address it at next week's AAPI meeting. I'm cc'ing
Alex and Cynthia for their thoughts -- Cynthia, are there simliar
"interfaces" in UIA?
2. We spent the better part of one of our AAPI meetings on whether
role="text" should support IA2 and ATK's AccessibleText interfaces. The
problem was that the character/word information is problematic in
certain cases, e.g.,
<span role="text" aria-label="3 of 5 stars">★★★☆☆︎</span></p>
The string "3 of 5 stars" has four words and 13 characters, whereas
"★★★☆☆︎" is one (?) word with five characters.
Joanie's suggestion was along the lines of stating that role="text"
might implement an accessible text interface, with the caveat that it
may not make sense in all cases. (I'm certain I've not captured
Joanie's thoughts accurately here).
3. Should something with role="text" also support a hypertext
interface? I don't see anything in the definition of the role to
suggest that. I'm confused: wouldn't a role="link" be needed to
support hypertext?
--
;;;;joseph.
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