Bug 78967 – AXDescription for HTML5 footer and ARIA role contentinfo incorrect

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

[Steve Faulkner]

Currently the AXRoleDescription string for AXSubRole= AXLandmarkContentInfo is "content". This is ambiguous and does not convey the meaning of the role. Suggest changing the AXRoleDescription to "content information".
The same is used for the HTML5 footer element. In this case it is recommended that the AXRoleDescription be changed to "footer" to disambiguate it from The ARIA landmark contentinfo role as it is not the same.
References:
HTML5 4.4.9 The footer element http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/the-footer-element.html#the-footer-element
WAI - ARIA 1.0 5. The Roles Model http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/roles#contentinfo
HTML to Platform Accessibility APIs Implementation Guide http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/html-api-map/raw-file/tip/Overview.html
Using WAI ARIA Landmark Roles - http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/2010/10/using-wai-aria-landmark-roles/

[chris fleizach]

Created attachment 127820 [details]
patch to change content -> content information

[chris fleizach]

Created attachment 127908 [details]
patch to add role description for footer elements

[chris fleizach]

Comment on attachment 127908 [details]
patch to add role description for footer elements

View in context: https://bugs.webkit.org/attachment.cgi?id=127908&action=review

> Source/WebCore/English.lproj/Localizable.strings:567
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this was part of the previous patch, got caught up in this patch

[Early Warning System Bot]

Comment on attachment 127908 [details]
patch to add role description for footer elements

Attachment 127908 [details] did not pass qt-ews (qt):
Output: http://queues.webkit.org/results/11558022

[chris fleizach]

Created attachment 129151 [details]
patch to add separate footer role description

[WebKit Review Bot]

Comment on attachment 129151 [details]
patch to add separate footer role description

Attachment 129151 [details] did not pass chromium-ews (chromium-xvfb):
Output: http://queues.webkit.org/results/11639460

[chris fleizach]

Created attachment 129194 [details]
patch for footer role

[WebKit Review Bot]

Please wait for approval from [e-mail] before submitting because this patch contains changes to the Chromium public API.

[Collabora GTK+ EWS bot]

Comment on attachment 129194 [details]
patch for footer role

Attachment 129194 [details] did not pass gtk-ews (gtk):
Output: http://queues.webkit.org/results/11662158

[Darin Fisher (:fishd, Google)]

Comment on attachment 129194 [details]
patch for footer role

Chromium WebKit API changes LGTM

[chris fleizach]

Created attachment 130253 [details]
patch for footer role

[chris fleizach]

content -> content info 
http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/110825

[chris fleizach]

footer role->
http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/110828