Re: [AAPI] UAI TF Meeting Agenda Tue Aug 02, 2016

Hi Cynthia,

On 2016-08-02 1:22 PM, Cynthia Shelly wrote:
> I could use some input on Issue 980. In particular, does anyone know the history behind "managed states" (Rich?)

You probably already know this, but the one clue I know of is in the
Core-AAM [1].  The set of managed states are the ones that change
regardless of the presence of an aria-* state or property.

That means that these are AAPI states that are managed by the user agent
even when the author has not used ARIA.  As an example (warning: 
speculation ahead), when a document loads into the browser, there is a
point where it is considered loaded, and the browser fires an onloaded
event.  I speculate, for example, that the user agent initially sets
STATE_BUSY while the document is loading, and then clears it when the
document is loaded (note:  using ATK-AT-SPI state here).

Somewhere, for each AAPI, there is a list of states it supports.  See,
for example, Mozilla's list of MSAA states [2].  Which ones are managed
by the browser irrespective of ARIA?

[1]
https://rawgit.com/w3c/aria/master/core-aam/core-aam.html#statePropertyMappingGeneralRules,
item 1.
[2]
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility/AT-APIs/MSAA/States

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