Community Meeting ( Mar 1 ): Changes from Aria 1.0 to 1.1

[Taliesin Love Smith]

Hi Folks,
Sorry I didn't get to this community discussion.

Joseph, if you have a summary to share, it would be great to know your
thoughts on the changes.

I've found the following recent posts by Bryan Garaventa helpfu (just
sharing here) in case they haven't already been shared on this list.

ARIA Widget Checklist for various screen reader / browser combinations
Link:
https://www.ssbbartgroup.com/blog/aria-widget-checklist-screen-reader-testing/

And a 4-part blog series on ARIA 1.1 changes starting with this on:
Link:
https://www.ssbbartgroup.com/blog/differences-aria-1-0-1-1-deprecations-additions/

Taliesin



Taliesin.Smith at colorado.edu
Inclusive Design Research Specialist
PhET Interactive Simulations
Department of Physics
University of Colorado, Boulder


On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 3:38 AM, Joseph Scheuhammer <clown at alum.mit.edu>
wrote:

> At this week’s Community Meeting
> <https://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/Community+workshops> ( March
> 1, 2017 ) Joseph will be talking about the changes in the ARIA
> <https://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/aria> spec from version 1.0 to 1.1.
>
>
> A followup regarding the new "switch" role.  There was a question about
> the semantic difference between a switch and checkbox (and toggle button).
> I found a subtle one in the spec.
>
> The switch role uses aria-checked to indicate if the switch is "on" or
> "off".  The aria-checked state, on its own, allows three values, namely,
> "true", "false", and "mixed".  However, if used with the switch role, only
> true or false values are allowed, since switches cannot be in some
> intermediate state*.
>
> In contrast, aria-checked="mixed" is allowed for checkboxes (and toggle
> buttons).  Checkboxes that controls a set of children checkboxes are
> "mixed" when only some of the children are checked.
>
> Now, just wait for someone to design a switch that controls a set of other
> switches, not all of which are "on".
>
>
> * the law of the excluded middle
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_excluded_middle>
>
> --
> ;;;;joseph.
>
> 'Die Wahrheit ist Irgendwo da Draußen. Wieder.'
>                  - C. Carter -
>
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