Bug 186084 – AX: Expose link rel type to voiceover

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: FIXED
• Component: Accessibility

[chris fleizach]

Expose rel type to voiceover so it can speak it

[Radar WebKit Bug Importer]

<rdar://problem/40640871>

[chris fleizach]

<rdar://problem/40562873>

[chris fleizach]

Created attachment 341558 [details]
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[James Craig]

I don't think WebKit should expose all these types to the platform APIs. It wouldn't make sense to have AT (VO/SC for Mac, VO/SC for iOS, Orca on Linux, etc) maintain their own representation of  the search engine instructions (nofollow, canonical),  rendering engine instructions (manifest, prefetch), or verbose microdata. 

Perhaps add a short whitelist for each of the few relevant types? It might be good to have WebKit localize these values, too.

https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#linkTypes
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Link_types

Likely candidates are:
- author
- bookmark 
- external
- help
- license
- next
- prev
- search

Deprecated but still useful:
- archives
- first
- index
- last
- up

Maybe:
- alternate (if the type attribute is set to a human readable value like PDF)

[James Craig]

> It might be good to have WebKit localize these values, too.

To clarify, I'm suggesting WebKit expose *both* the raw machine value (e.g. "prev") and a localized equivalent (e.g. "Previous")

[chris fleizach]

(In reply to James Craig from comment #5)
> > It might be good to have WebKit localize these values, too.
> 
> To clarify, I'm suggesting WebKit expose *both* the raw machine value (e.g.
> "prev") and a localized equivalent (e.g. "Previous")

Suggestion noted. I don’t think it makes sense to do that. It doesn’t have any value and restricts ability of screen reader platforms to communicate what they want to their users

[chris fleizach]

Created attachment 341576 [details]
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[WebKit Commit Bot]

Comment on attachment 341576 [details]
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Clearing flags on attachment: 341576

Committed r232326: <https://trac.webkit.org/changeset/232326>

[WebKit Commit Bot]

All reviewed patches have been landed.  Closing bug.