Re: [Accessibility-ia2] Mapping of aria-errormessage for ATK/AT-SPI2 and IA2

2016-02-24 Thread James Teh
The same could apply to descriptions (e.g. a description could include a link to more info about how to fill in the field), but that's never been a factor before. Also, even if you believe this is more likely with errormessage for some reason, I'm guessing you still want AT to report the

Re: [Accessibility-ia2] Mapping of aria-errormessage for ATK/AT-SPI2 and IA2

2016-02-24 Thread Richard Schwerdtfeger
We want to separate out errors from help information. aria-errormessage only takes an IDREF. > On Feb 24, 2016, at 5:14 PM, James Teh wrote: > > I thought aria-describedby could refer to multiple nodes. As such, I don't > follow why authors were "stuck" when they wanted

Re: [Accessibility-ia2] Mapping of aria-errormessage for ATK/AT-SPI2 and IA2

2016-02-24 Thread Richard Schwerdtfeger
Error messages may have additional content in there that needs greater semantic structure. For example, what if the error message had a link to a online help area about the topic. Converting it to a string would not work. Rich > On Feb 23, 2016, at 5:20 PM, Joanmarie Diggs

Re: [Accessibility-ia2] Mapping of aria-errormessage for ATK/AT-SPI2 and IA2

2016-02-24 Thread Joseph Scheuhammer
Part of the rationale for introducing aria-errormessage was that authors were already using aria-describedby for the error message, but were stuck when they wanted to provide a description separate from the error message. Thus, a reason for introducing aria-errormessage was to distinguish it

Re: [Accessibility-ia2] IA2 Role Landmark

2016-02-24 Thread Joseph Scheuhammer
On 2016-02-23 10:48 PM, Rich Schwerdtfeger wrote: We will update the ARIA mapping spec Can you be more specific? One thing we will do is change the mapping for role region to: "IAccessible2: IA2_ROLE_LANDMARK and object attribute xml-roles:region". For comparison, the current ATK/AT-SPI

Re: [Accessibility-ia2] Collections iface? (Re: IA2 Role Landmark)

2016-02-24 Thread Joseph Scheuhammer
On 2016-02-23 6:30 PM, Joanmarie Diggs wrote: ... sucks dirty socks IMHO Eeww. Thank you so much for that image :-( -- joseph. 'Die Wahrheit ist Irgendwo da Draußen. Wieder.' - C. Carter - ___ Accessibility-ia2 mailing list