Hi Joseph--
Thanks for the clarification. It sounds like bringing it up to the PFWG
makes sense. I'm not the expert, though, so I'll yield to whatever Colin
recommends. :^)
It does seem like a solution that we can't implement for awhile, though.
Is that correct?
Mike
Joseph Scheuhammer wrote:
Hi all,
Colin wrote:
At heart, the problem is that ARIA doesn't provide a suitable role
for the kind of interaction provided by Inline Edit.
It goes beyond ARIA. There (probably) isn't an "Inline Edit" role
in any of the a11y APIs. So, even if the role was added to ARIA, it
wouldn't do at lot of good until a11y APIs caught up.
The reason for the "probably" is that there *may* be such a thing.
Consider that a11y APIs were created first for desktop apps. Desktop
icons have a label that acts like an inline edit. It's inert until
the user clicks (double clicks) on it, and then becomes active
editable text. Loss of focus or a "return" keystroke accepts any
changes, and the label returns to its inert state.
What do a11y APIs have to say about that label? I'll take a look at
some point.
As a first pass, given that there isn't an inline edit role, how does
this look:
<div role="textbox" aria-readonly="true" aria-pressed="false"
aria-labelledby="labelId" ...>
where,
- readonly + not-pressed indicate that it's in its inactive state.
- clicking on or pressing return switches to aria-readonly="false" +
aria-pressed="true"; users can edit the contents.
- clicking away, or pressing return, switches it back to its readonly
not-pressed state.
Note that aria-pressed is a property of role="button" and was
introduced to handle toggle buttons. At present it isn't a property
of role="textbox". But, it kind of captures the dual state of an
inline edit box.
I'm willing to take the suggestion to the PFWG if there isn't an
obvious flaw in this approach.
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