Bug 151691 – AX: Change the AXRoleDescription value of the ARIA feed role to "feed"

• Component: Accessibility
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[James Craig]

ARIA 1.1 adds a new type of list subclass called "feed" with "article" children. Articles are not landmarks, but it might be useful to have some quick navigation between them when in a "feed" context.

http://rawgit.com/w3c/aria/master/aria/aria.html#feed

[Radar WebKit Bug Importer]

<rdar://problem/23699399>

[James Craig]

That said, I haven't seen a convincing argument for why a list of articles in a "feed" is more or less useful than a list of articles outside a "feed"

[James Craig]

Looks like the general consensus is that people just want article navigation separate from the main landmarks, so let's just add a Safari rotor for <article> and role="article".

This would allow quick rotor navigation on many sites like Facebook, Twitter, etc. w/o the need for a new container role.

[Zoë Bijl]

Before Feed gets shot down completely, please consider that we might want to expand it to support other elements/media like images, video, or even mixed.

See PFWG minutes here: http://www.w3.org/2015/11/12-aria-minutes.html#item04

[James Craig]

Isn't "list" sufficient for those?

[Zoë Bijl]

@James: I think you're better off asking Matt King, he came up with it :)

[Rich Schwerdtfeger]

 I would recommend you do the same mapping we created (Mac terms) for feed. Group would suffice, as you can have a group of articles, if you don’t wish to do anything special. IA2 uses a group role with an xml-roles object attribute=“feed”. So, this would be as simple as having an AXGroup role with a Mac role description of  “feed”.

[James Craig]

Adoption of this has been reasonable in sites and other rendering engines, so let's implement. 

Todo: Implement a new 'feedRole' in WebKit, a with macOS platform mapping of:

  AXRole: AXGroup
  AXSubrole: AXApplicationGroup
  AXRoleDescription: 'feed'

[Joanmarie Diggs]

(In reply to James Craig from comment #8)
> Adoption of this has been reasonable in sites and other rendering engines,
> so let's implement. 
> 
> Todo: Implement a new 'feedRole' in WebKit, a with macOS platform mapping of:
> 
>   AXRole: AXGroup
>   AXSubrole: AXApplicationGroup

The above is already done.

>   AXRoleDescription: 'feed'

This will need to be done. Currently it is 'group'. Assigning to myself. Will do a new patch, along with some other new roles, tomorrow.

Thanks for the update!

[Joanmarie Diggs]

Closing as a dup of bug 171183 which now has a patch which adds the figure and term roles and also updates the AXRoleDescription mapping for the feed role.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 171183 ***