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Seeking public feedback for W3C ARIA role=form landmark mapping

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From: Bryan Garaventa
Date: Apr 19, 2016 1:53PM

Hello,
Currently the W3C ARIA Working Group is looking into a mapping change for the 'form' role as documented at
http://www.w3.org/TR/2016/WD-wai-aria-1.1-20160317/#form

At present, the form role is not mapped in the same manner as other landmark roles within the accessibility APIs, which is why certain landmark behaviors such as the ability to jump between landmark regions and other such features are not automatically available with forms.

The current proposal is to remap form in the same manner as other landmarks to enable this functionality in the future, which will automatically apply to HTML form elements through their implicit role mappings to the ARIA role=form API mapping.

So the question for the public is, do people want forms to act in the same manner as other landmarks?

This feedback will be returned to the W3C ARIA WG for further consideration of this proposal.

Thanks,
Bryan



Bryan Garaventa
Accessibility Fellow
SSB BART Group, Inc.
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