#16241 closed defect (fixed)
[PATCH][CCLA] dijit.layout.ContentPane : remove invalid aria role
| Reported by: | mikeb | Owned by: | bill |
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| Priority: | undecided | Milestone: | 1.8.4 |
| Component: | Dijit | Version: | 1.8.1 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | Becky Gibson | |
| Blocked By: | Blocking: |
Description
As per the WAI-ARIA spec about role=group (http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/roles#group) we should remove role=group from the ContentPane?.
"There are very few scenarios where group is appropriate outside of a tree. One example might be a group of form elements or widgets that are all related to the same subject and thus share a common description. In this case, the group may not only have aria-labeledby but also aria-describedby. In all cases where group is outside of a tree, it should have either aria-label or aria-labeledby. In most cases, if there is not a labeling element on the screen that can be referenced by aria-labelledby, then you probably should not be using group." - an accessibility expert who sits on the w3 working group
I attached a patch for this issue. I will attach the fixes for the all of the layout test pages in a single, separate ticket.
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Change History (9)
Changed 9 years ago by
| Attachment: | ContentPane.js.remove.invalid.role.patch added |
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comment:1 Changed 9 years ago by
| Cc: | Becky Gibson added |
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| Milestone: | tbd → 1.9 |
I'll remove, but CC'ing Becky since she added that code in [12280].
PS: no idea why it was added; it seems odd to have any predefined role for a ContentPane.
comment:3 Changed 9 years ago by
Thanks for cc'ing me. I have no objections to removing. Many of the aria attributes were added in order to make JAWS work before the ARIA spec was finalized and before JAWS had full support. There are probably other cases where there are aria attributes which are not officially allowed by the spec. They should get found over time and ferreted out.
comment:4 Changed 9 years ago by
Would it be possible to backport this to 1.8 branch? I created a patch that just uses [29883]. There have been additional changes to ContentPane?, but they were already backported to 1.8 in [30197].
Changed 9 years ago by
| Attachment: | backport-ticket-16241-contentPane-accessibility-fixes.patch added |
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Backport accessibility fix to ContentPane? from 30198, refs 16241, please proxy commit for Michael Billau
comment:7 Changed 9 years ago by
| Milestone: | 1.9 → 1.8.4 |
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remove role=group from dijit.layout.ContentPane?, please proxy commit for Michael Billau CCLA on file with IBM