Closed joanmarie closed 1 year ago
I think it needs to be a space-separated token list, because it is possible to have "bold italic underline", etc.
So given <b><i><u>foo</u></i></b>
, we'd just have one generic element?
So given
<b><i><u>foo</u></i></b>
, we'd just have one generic element?
Wouldn't that be better?
Not sure. I'm just asking. :)
Straw poll 1 of 2: We want an attribute.
See also @aleventhal's: https://github.com/w3c/html-aam/issues/551
Straw poll 2: We want to make it a space-separated token list.
The ARIA Working Group just discussed text attributes
.
Is the point of this attribute is to express semantics, or is it to allow presentational tags to 'flavor' the content reported by the AT?
I'd rather see parity for the true semantic inline tags such as <strong>
and <em>
than for <b>
and <i>
!
Re. the IRC log, "Except for abbr and address, these are all about what text looks like".
I disagree, strikethrough
expresses a very distinct semantic, which has a radical effect on the meaning. It's not just presentation. The same applies (perhaps less radically) to mark
, quote
, keyboard
, sample
and var
. A quote is definitely not a presentational thing, and if AT users are not informed that something is a quote, it may be mistakenly attributed to the document's own author. Not desirable.
@brennanyoung ARIA 1.2 already includes the following roles
strong
, emphasis
, insertion
, deletion
and blockquote
mark
is already in the editors draft for 1.3 to support the annotations work.
Are we still considering this or should we close?
i was under the impression this wasn't really needed anymore with the way that generic has panned out in implementations.
We have quite a few generic-role candidates related to formatting that is relevant to the user -- not sufficiently relevant to justify a dedicated role, but still something we may wish to preserve and expose to users through their assistive technologies. In order to expose this formatting, we could have an attribute such as
aria-textattribute
(namesmithing welcome :smile: ).My current thought is that
aria-textattribute
would have the value oftoken
. It would only be supported on the to-be-created "generic" role. And it would contain one of the following values:abbreviation
address
bold
italic
keyboard
mark
preformatted
quote
strikethrough
sample
small
underline
variable
Thoughts?