[whatwg] Feedback on a variety of elements

[Steve Faulkner]

hixie wrote:

> > On Sun, 10 Jun 2012, Steve Faulkner wrote:
> > >> >
> > >> > You don't clearly differentiate between roles, properties and
> > >> > states, ther are quite a few states and properties NOT provided in
> > >> > HTML5 that may have use cases for adding to an input element, for
> > >> > example aria-hapopup, aria-labelledby, aria-decirbedby,
> > >> > aria-controls etc
> > >
> > > Could you give an example of any of these in valid use?
> >
> > the following input (gmail search box) uses aria-haspopup=true
> >
> > <input type="text" value="" autocomplete="off" name="q" class="gbqfif"
> > id="gbqfq" *aria-haspopup="true"* style="border: medium none; padding: 0px;
> > margin: 0px; height: auto; width: 100%; background:
> > url("data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAID/AMDAwAAAACH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw%3D%3D")
> > repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; position: absolute; z-index: 6; left:
> > 0px;" dir="ltr" spellcheck="false">
>
> Interesting. Can you elaborate on how this actually works? That is,
> aria-haspopup tells the AT that activating the element shows a popup, but
> what does activating the element mean? How does the AT expose this to the
> user? How does the user know what to do with this?


aria-haspop maps to haspopup state in acc APIs

Typically the user gets notified that there is a sub menu and may
(depending on verbosity preferences) get told how to interact with it.

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with regards

SteveF