Hi Rich,
I've already stated my view on this:
I understand the reason for the use of the landmark role for
role="form". However, I disagree with the HTML form element being
mapped to the landmark role because semantics are lost. The fact that
something is a form has more semantic value than just being a
landmark. Still, if the spec already requires this, I guess we have
little choice but to comply at this stage.
At the end of the day, I'm not sure why this is still an open question,
since it seems that the spec groups have already made a decision on this:
The HTML the form element now uses the ARIA mappings for the form
role. See "Use WAI-ARIA mapping” under the form element. This is for
all platforms.
In other words, we can't comply with the spec unless we do as you
suggest, so there is no other choice. There is no point in discussing
this further.
Thanks,
Jamie
On 7/09/2016 5:54 AM, Richard Schwerdtfeger wrote:
Jamie, Alex, Brett,
We need to reach consensus on the <form> element and role="form" mapping.
Can we agree on the following? :
1. that the IA2 IDL supports IA2_ROLE_LANDMARK and IA2_ROLE_FORM (so
that old versions of FF and other applications using the form role can
still work with ATs)
2. For Firefox updates here on out the <form> element and role="form"
map to IA2_ROLE_LANDMARK and xml-roles="form"
This way AT vendors can check if something is a landmark to determine
if something is a landmark and then expose xml-roles="form"
Eventually, it would be better to not have to make an exception for
the Form role when all the other landmark roles are represented as
IA2_ROLE_LANDMARK with xml-roles="form"
This and the other discussion items of the last 2 weeks are holding up
3 working groups - ARIA, HTML, and SVG.
Rich Schwerdtfeger
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