Bug 28923 – Table cell role should defer to WAI-ARIA role on cell, if set

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

[Jonas Klink]

In AccessibilityTableCell::roleValue() no check exists to see if a valid WAI-ARIA role attribute is set on the object. The expected behavior here would be for the WebCore::CellRole to defer to a valid ARIA role set on the object.

[Jonas Klink]

I will have a patch uploaded for review shortly.

[Jonas Klink]

Created attachment 39077 [details]
Fixes the issue described in this bug.

Developer of patch is on Win-XP, where LayoutTests are still broken. LayoutTest should be added to test this behavior once they run properly on Win platform.

[Darin Adler]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Developer of patch is on Win-XP, where LayoutTests are still broken. LayoutTest
> should be added to test this behavior once they run properly on Win platform.

The Windows bot shows layout tests currently running fine with a few tests failing. I don't know what you mean by "LayoutTests are still broken". Could you refer me to the bugs.webkit.org bug describing the problem?

[Jonas Klink]

Reason for that comment is that it looks like most of the tests are on the "Skipped" list (LayoutTests/platform/win/Skipped). If there is another reason for skipping all of these tests, I'd be happy to add a test to this patch.

[Eric Seidel (no email)]

Comment on attachment 39077 [details]
Fixes the issue described in this bug.

We either need a test, or explanation as to why there is no test in the ChangeLog (ideally referencing a bug number).  Jon Honeycutt might know more about AX tests and their status on XP.

[Chris Guillory]

Working with Jonas. I'll be picking up this patch.

[James Craig]

Resolved in determineAccessibilityRole in a later rev.