The problem with the name computation is that: If you use it to compute a name only and then type over it you lose the hint. ... e.g. a placeholder value of MMDDYY. The AT can always ask for the placeholder value.
Rich Rich Schwerdtfeger From: Alexander Surkov <[email protected]> To: Joseph Scheuhammer <[email protected]> Cc: IAccessible2 mailing list <[email protected]>, Steve Faulkner <[email protected]> Date: 05/01/2015 09:20 AM Subject: Re: [Accessibility-ia2] placeholder mapping Sent by: [email protected] So it seems like we all agree to introduce placeholder object attribute in IAccessible2. IA2 spec doesn't define markup mappings so it doesn't have to say about HTML5 placeholder and ARIA aria-placeholder attributes. Anyway, it doesn't prevent us from discussing it here :) So are there benefits in changing of current HTML5 placeholder mappings into accessible name and description? Btw, Joseph, I didn't really suggested to change GTK+ mappings :) On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 12:05 PM, Joseph Scheuhammer <[email protected]> wrote: On 2015-04-29 7:48 AM, Alexander Surkov wrote: I support the idea that the browser should find a best match for accessible name and description. Btw, current version of HTML a11y spec agrees on it [1]. After all there's backward compatibility issue If placeholder is exposed leaving accessible name blank. [1] http://rawgit.com/w3c/aria/master/html-aam/html-aam.html#input-type-text-input-type-password-input-type-search-input-type-tel-input-type-email-input-type-url-and-textarea-element-accessible-name-calculation That's not backward compatible with the GNOME desktop (GTK+), where placeholder text is not mapped to an empty accessible name. Thus, there is now a mismatch between desktop widgets and widgets within a web page, on one desktop. -- ;;;;joseph. 'Array(16).join("wat" - 1) + " Batman!"' - G. Bernhardt - _______________________________________________ Accessibility-ia2 mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/accessibility-ia2
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