[Accessibility-ia2] IA2 Role Landmark

Schnabel, Stefan stefan.schnabel at sap.com
Sun Feb 21 19:38:59 UTC 2016


+1

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On 20.02.2016, at 23:35, Gunderson, Jon R <jongund at illinois.edu<mailto:jongund at illinois.edu>> wrote:

+1 on adding IA2_LANDMARK_ROLE

From: Richard Schwerdtfeger <richschwer at gmail.com<mailto:richschwer at gmail.com>>
Date: Friday, February 19, 2016 at 5:37 PM
To: Alexander Surkov <surkov.alexander at gmail.com<mailto:surkov.alexander at gmail.com>>
Cc: IA2 List <Accessibility-ia2 at lists.linux-foundation.org<mailto:Accessibility-ia2 at lists.linux-foundation.org>>, ARIA Working Group <public-aria at w3.org<mailto:public-aria at w3.org>>, Joseph Scheuhammer <clown at alum.mit.edu<mailto:clown at alum.mit.edu>>
Subject: IA2 Role Landmark
Resent-From: <public-aria at w3.org<mailto:public-aria at w3.org>>
Resent-Date: Friday, February 19, 2016 at 5:37 PM

Hi Alex,

I am following up on this earlier discussion regarding needing an IA2_LANDMARK_ROLE

http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/accessibility-ia2/2016-January/001993.html<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__lists.linuxfoundation.org_pipermail_accessibility-2Dia2_2016-2DJanuary_001993.html&d=BQMFaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=REZD8fc2AwufInstfW3L5jSLVS8bjZtAodDOhat7yAI&m=POKSeF-dBsUkYFlnFdl1Pcw8MH_TjUxJEggNluL7_20&s=pz6AynSyJ7ENUuA3DkZXkWt5zidMjoi05W9TWshbj8I&e=>


A fundamental change from ARIA 1.0 is we now have the role "region" as a descendant of a role of landmark:

https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-1.1/#region<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.w3.org_TR_wai-2Daria-2D1.1_-23region&d=BQMFaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=REZD8fc2AwufInstfW3L5jSLVS8bjZtAodDOhat7yAI&m=POKSeF-dBsUkYFlnFdl1Pcw8MH_TjUxJEggNluL7_20&s=mu08qOIVPLksq_1yC8aUhg5pwI-XNMtfYB8F38kri2Y&e=>


So, this is the revised set of landmarks:

https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-1.1/#landmark_roles<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.w3.org_TR_wai-2Daria-2D1.1_-23landmark-5Froles&d=BQMFaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=REZD8fc2AwufInstfW3L5jSLVS8bjZtAodDOhat7yAI&m=POKSeF-dBsUkYFlnFdl1Pcw8MH_TjUxJEggNluL7_20&s=Uf082yQETbwaIuxZEhRBiDAaVw7INWWBZ1Mhceujm2w&e=>

The reason for this is developers have been using labelledy regions as landmarks and in HTML5 we now have a section landmark which will default to a role of "region" if it has a label on it.

Given this change we would like this a new IA2_ROLE_LANDMARK that matches the landmark role we now have in ATK/ATSPI. The xml-roles attribute would take the value of the actual role as we know.

Is there any objection to introducing this new role in IA2?

We are trying to lock down ARIA 1.1 and this is one of the issues we need to address.

Thanks,

Rich

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