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
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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"
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.
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
Isn't "list" sufficient for those?
@James: I think you're better off asking Matt King, he came up with it :)
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”.
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'
(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!
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 ***