+1 on adding IA2_LANDMARK_ROLE

From: Richard Schwerdtfeger <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Date: Friday, February 19, 2016 at 5:37 PM
To: Alexander Surkov 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Cc: IA2 List 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>,
 ARIA Working Group <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>, Joseph 
Scheuhammer <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Subject: IA2 Role Landmark
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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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