Re: [1.2T LC] should @role in SVG be animatable? (ISSUE-2092)

Hi, Al-

Thanks for your comment.  I've recorded this as ISSUE-2092 in our
Tracker. The SVG WG will discuss this and get back to you soon.

Regards-
-Doug

Al Gilman wrote (on 9/28/08 9:01 PM):
> 
> 
> As regards WAI-ARIA alone, the answer should be 'no.'  In our best
> practices we instruct script authors not to change the role of an
> element, but rather to destroy the DOM object for that element and
> create a new object with the new role.
> 
> This is because the consumers of the accessibility APIs expect the role
> of a node to be static, just as xml:lang is not animatable in SVG.
> 
> SVG documents that animate the value of @role would confuse the AT
> consumers of the accessibility APIs.  I suppose that the browser could
> trap these
> property-change events and destroy and create the object in the
> accessible object graph, but then...
> 
> Can anybody come up with a use case for animating the @role value using
> the currently-defined roles from either the XHTML Role Module or WAI-ARIA?
> 
> Al
> /self
> 
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-xhtml-role-20080407/
> http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/aria/
> 

Received on Tuesday, 7 October 2008 13:26:22 UTC