Bug 251404
| Summary: | AX: De-couple contenteditable mapping from AXTextArea role (needs VO work, too) | ||
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| Product: | WebKit | Reporter: | James Craig <jcraig> |
| Component: | Accessibility | Assignee: | Nobody <webkit-unassigned> |
| Status: | NEW | ||
| Severity: | Normal | CC: | andresg_22, webkit-bug-importer |
| Priority: | P2 | Keywords: | InRadar |
| Version: | WebKit Nightly Build | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | All | ||
James Craig
AX: De-couple contenteditable mapping from AXTextArea role (needs VO work, too)
This will require changes to VoiceOver and possibly other assistive technologies, too.
HTML-AAM Issue 455 https://github.com/w3c/html-aam/issues/455 raised some potential problems with WebKit's accessibility mapping of contenteditable.
For example:
1. Should it really override the role? E.g., is <main contenteditable> no longer an AXGroup:AXApplicationMain?
2. How are the other values mapped? https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Global_attributes/contenteditable e.g. See support table at contenteditable="plaintext-only"
3. How would a cascade override work if we have it tied to role?
<div contenteditable="true">
Obi-Wan never told you what happened to your father.
He told me enough! He told me you killed him!
<span contenteditable="false">No. I am your father.</span>
</div>
For now, VoiceOver's web editing functionality is interwoven with AXTextArea, but there are benefits to changing this. Filing this bug to track the eventual work in WebKit.
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Radar WebKit Bug Importer
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James Craig
If/when this is changed, please file a new "spec needs update" issue to https://github.com/w3c/html-aam/issues (or ask me to do so. thanks.)