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Re: How to Generate an Automatically Accessible ARIA Tree Control From an XML File

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From: GILLENWATER, ZOE M
Date: Sep 27, 2011 8:09AM

Bryan,

This is a great idea and very cool demo. Just a couple points:

-- I only have to click once on a tree item to expand/collapse it, not twice as your notes seem to indicate. But frankly I think that's a good thing. I suspect a single click is what most users will expect, and I don't see anything in the W3C guidelines (http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-practices/#TreeView) that dictates double-click (though most ARIA tree demos do seem to use double-click for some reason).
-- There are a lot of nested divs within the lists. Are these required in order to make it automated? It would be nice if you could apply the ARIA attributes to the <li> elements directly instead of nesting divs.

Excellent work!
Zoe


Zoe Gillenwater
Technical Architect, Design Standards Accessibility
Creative Experience Team
AT&T eCommerce

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