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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: May 26, 2016 11:20AM

True.
But the table role is new and, in my most recent testing, is not
supported anywhere (well, IE/FF with Jaws/NVDA).
I have had to recommend building a read-only grid once or twice where
there was no way of implementing an HTML table.
That being said, I totally agree with you Bryan, that a grid is an
interactice construct and should cause a.t. to go into forms mode.
Unfortuantely the is a discontted in that the ARIA spec makes no user
agent recommendation for different roles.
I know people are working on supporting documentation to address this
gp, though I am not well versed in the details. But I know it is
needed.
-B


On 5/26/16, Bryan Garaventa < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Actually the behavior that aria-readonly="true" on a grid as not going into
> Forms Mode is a screen reader bug.
>
> A grid is an interactive construct according to the spec, regardless whether
> it is readonly or not, and it is meant to be interacted with using the
> keyboard.
>
> If the intent is to build a data table instead, then the developer should be
> using role=table and it's associated roles in accordance with the table
> mappings at
> http://whatsock.com/training/matrices/#table
> This is why the table role was added to the spec, to provide an accessible
> construct for non-interactive tables.
>
> Since aria-readonly is supported on role="gridcell, role=columnheader, and
> role=rowheader cells for example, you could easily have a table where some
> cells marked as column or row header cells are meant to be readonly but
> others are not, and if you are not allowed to enter Forms Mode on some but
> not others or if Forms Mode gets booted out when you arrow to a readonly
> cell, it will impair intuitive navigation.
>
> Please file this behavior as a bug if you notice this happening.
>
> Bryan Garaventa
> Accessibility Fellow
> SSB BART Group, Inc.
> <EMAIL REMOVED>
> 415.624.2709 (o)
> www.SSBBartGroup.com
>
>