Re: aria mappings

Hi Jim, Maciej,
I have comments on this subject, but am absolutely flat out at work, so will
respond ASAP.

regards
steve

2009/9/23 Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>

>
> On Sep 22, 2009, at 7:45 PM, Jim Jewett wrote:
>
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 8:42 PM, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sep 22, 2009, at 5:02 PM, Jim Jewett wrote:
>>>
>>>> input type=color and input type= (datetime, date, month, week, time,
>>>> datetime-local) are defined with no role.
>>>>
>>>
>>  I think that these should have role=spinbutton
>>>>
>>>
>> In practice, I don't think the UIs for these will be useful to reflect to
>>> assistive technology as if it were a spin button.
>>>
>>
>> I think datepicker would be much better, but that role doesn't seem to
>> exist in aria.  And I have certainly used interfaces that required me
>> to pick a date by hitting the little "arrow" glyph way too often.
>>
>> How would you recommend AT represent these input types?  As text
>> fields with validity patterns?
>>
>
> I would recommend that implementations represent these controls to AT in a
> way that is suited to the concrete non-AT user interface they have chosen -
> which may be different for different implementations, and which may depend
> on what semantics AT can represent.
>
>
>> For many of these controls, there are multiple viable implementation
>>> strategies for the exact UI. I don't think the spec should assume a
>>> particular implementation in designating the accessibility behavior.
>>>
>>
>> Is the (aria-)role supposed to represent the physical implementation
>> that happens to have been chosen, or the underlying semantics?
>>
>
> The underlying semantics of a color picker are not the semantics of a
> spinbutton -- they are the semantics of a color picker. But ARIA has no such
> role and assistive technologies do not always support the notion of a color
> picker directly. If role=spinbutton is supposed to imply that up and down
> arrow selection would work, then it should not be applied to a color picker.
> Choosing a color by using up and down arrows to cycle through all numeric
> color values would be a very bad way to do it.
>
> In some cases, a UI for choosing from a selected set of values may have
> different semantics depending on the control used to implement it. For
> example, you pointed out that <select> and spinbuttons may both allow
> selection from a fixed set of values, but each is a appropriate in a
> different situation. In HTML, there are also <input type="range"> and radio
> button groups as possible ways to choose a number from a fixed set.
>
>
>> Should the AT see the same underlying date field differently depending
>> on which browser is being used (and how that browser vendor decided to
>> style the chooser for sighted users)?
>>
>
> In my opinion, yes.
>
> (And are these questions that need to be formally asked of the pfwg?)
>>
>
> Feel free to ask, but I believe what I said is consistent with their
> guidance.
>
> Regards,
> Maciej
>
>
>


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