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title="NEW - AX: Expose a new AXSubrole for explicit ARIA "group" role"
href="https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169810#c8">Comment # 8</a>
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title="NEW - AX: Expose a new AXSubrole for explicit ARIA "group" role"
href="https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169810">bug 169810</a>
from <span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:jcraig@apple.com" title="James Craig <jcraig@apple.com>"> <span class="fn">James Craig</span></a>
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<pre>Comment on <span class=""><a href="attachment.cgi?id=304917&action=diff" name="attach_304917" title="patch">attachment 304917</a> <a href="attachment.cgi?id=304917&action=edit" title="patch">[details]</a></span>
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<span class="quote">>> Source/WebKit/win/ChangeLog:9
>> + Account for Windows platform role mapping.
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> did you modify GTK files to map this new role</span >
Looking into that.
<span class="quote">>> LayoutTests/accessibility/list-detection2-expected.txt:-20
>> -PASS: ul w/ background image (NOT A LIST) -> group.
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> these objects are no longer groups? that seems unexpected</span >
This is expected. Those elements are still mapped to "AXGroup" (with no subrole) but no longer return "group" as the computed ARIA role string. Layout lists match neither role="list" nor role="group", so web inspector users can now see these have "No exact ARIA role match" rather than the misleading "group" role that previously appeared.
I think a future version of ARIA may include a "generic" or some equivalent role for non-semantic container elements like <div> and other elements heuristically determined to be mere layout items. If/when it does, <div>s and layout lists, would vend that role.</pre>
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