Axe-core: Role types in lookup table disagree with ARIA spec

Created on 4 Jan 2018 · 3Comments · Source: dequelabs/axe-core

These roles are marked as widgets in lib/commons/aria/index.js, but not in the aria spec

Structure roles

tooltip

https://github.com/dequelabs/axe-core/blame/develop/lib/commons/aria/index.js#L874
https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-1.1/#tooltip

Window roles

dialog

https://github.com/dequelabs/axe-core/blame/develop/lib/commons/aria/index.js#L319
https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-1.1/#dialog

alertdialog

https://github.com/dequelabs/axe-core/blame/develop/lib/commons/aria/index.js#L191
https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-1.1/#alertdialog

Live region roles

aria 1.1 core

Source

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Long-term, we should consider moving to something like aria-query instead of maintaining our own lookupTable.

marcysutton on 5 Jan 2018

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Long-term, we should consider moving to something like aria-query instead of maintaining our own lookupTable.

marcysutton on 5 Jan 2018

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Role "application" also has been moved from landmark roles in ARIA 1.0 to structure roles in ARIA 1.1

iamrafan on 21 Jun 2018

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Our use of "type" in axe-core isn't intended as an exact match with the ARIA spec. I think keeping the flexibility to differ from ARIA is useful for us. I'm closing this issue, we're not going to resolve this as a whole, individually cases can be opened in separate issues.