Hey all. We need to map aria-errormessage on the various platforms, including ATK/AT-SPI2 and IA2. Given the ongoing desire for cross-platform homogeneity, I'll toss out what I was thinking for my platform for consideration by IA2 folks.
Proposal: Connect the message to the element with the error via the RELATION_DESCRIBED_BY/RELATION_DESCRIPTION_FOR relation pair and expose "errormessage" as an object attribute. Rationale: 1. An error message provides descriptive information about an object. 2. Exposure via a relation eliminates the need to tree dive to find the error. 3. Accessible relations can have multiple targets, so this exposure does not stomp on a non-error description while at the same time eliminating the need for each platform to create a new relation type(s). 4. The object attribute is needed to identify which target (if any) is an error message. Thoughts? --joanie _______________________________________________ Accessibility-ia2 mailing list Accessibility-ia2@lists.linuxfoundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/accessibility-ia2