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Re: Recommending Widget Markup that Doesn't Work in Reality

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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Feb 11, 2016 7:30AM

On 11/02/2016 12:00, Steve Faulkner wrote:
> On 11 February 2016 at 09:51, Alastair Campbell < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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>> For ARIA these come to mind:
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> and there is also - Notes on Using ARIA in HTML
> http://w3c.github.io/aria-in-html/

And it gets *real* fun once you see how any sufficiently complex ARIA
patterns (which were devised with a quite clear keyboard/desktop centric
view) fall apart for touch devices
http://w3c.github.io/aria-in-html/#aria-touch - with the advice I've
given to many clients recently to simply NOT implement certain patterns
as per ARIA and instead fall back to much simpler approaches. Most
recent example: combobox (autocomplete/type-ahead search type text field
with suggested values, which can be navigated using arrow keys on
keyboard) simply isn't workable for touch/AT users (I believe this was
mentioned on this list not so long ago).

P
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