Bug 265713

Summary:

AX: Roll back a retracted ARIA change: default aria-level for heading role should not randomly be 2.

Product:

WebKit

Reporter:

James Craig <jcraig>

Component:

Accessibility

Assignee:

Joshua Hoffman <jhoffman23>

Status:

RESOLVED FIXED

Severity:

Normal

CC:

aboxhall, andresg_22, apinheiro, cfleizach, dmazzoni, ews-watchlist, hi, jhoffman23, pangle, samuel_white, tyler_w, webkit-bug-importer

Priority:

Keywords:

InRadar

Version:

WebKit Nightly Build

Hardware:

All

OS:

All

Attachments:

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James Craig

Reported 2023-12-01 18:20:13 PST

Rollback a retracted ARIA change: default aria-level should not randomly be 2. Rollback or update to remove this diff: https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/commit/09bbaddcb99391c80fe4adde695393cc6de97c80 It shipped in ARIA 1.1 (I missed it or I would have objected then) https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-1.1/#heading But was removed (for good reason) in ARIA 1.2 https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-1.2/#heading So we should role back the change in WebKit. # Some justification: The spec change (default is 2 wtf?) prioritizes spec authors over users, authors, the inverse priority of the web platform design principles... 1. Screen reader users hear additional verbose information that may not be accurate: "heading level 2" instead of just "heading" 2. There's no way for an author to provide a heading with an unspecified level. So it's good that the ARIA spec removed it, and we should get this out of WebKit, too.

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Patch (4.95 KB, patch) 2023-12-02 21:22 PST, Joshua Hoffman	no flags	Details Formatted Diff Diff
Patch (7.12 KB, patch) 2023-12-03 18:24 PST, Joshua Hoffman	no flags	Details Formatted Diff Diff
Patch (8.18 KB, patch) 2023-12-03 19:34 PST, Joshua Hoffman	ews-feeder: commit-queue-	Details Formatted Diff Diff
Patch (8.93 KB, patch) 2023-12-03 21:41 PST, Joshua Hoffman	no flags	Details Formatted Diff Diff
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