WebAIM - Web Accessibility In Mind

E-mail List Archives

Re: Radio Button strange behaviour in Firefox.

for

From: Murphy, Sean
Date: Jun 24, 2020 4:59PM

Patrick,

Thanks for this detailed explanation. Now I have some bed time reading. 😊



Regards
Sean Murphy



Sean Murphy | Senior Digital System specialist (Accessibility)
Telstra Digital Channels | Digital Systems
Mobile: 0405 129 739 | Desk: (02) 9866-7917
Digital Systems Launch Page
Accessibility Single source of Truth

-----Original Message-----
From: WebAIM-Forum < <EMAIL REMOVED> > On Behalf Of Patrick H. Lauke
Sent: Thursday, 25 June 2020 7:28 AM
To: <EMAIL REMOVED>
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Radio Button strange behaviour in Firefox.

[External Email] This email was sent from outside the organisation – be cautious, particularly with links and attachments.

On 24/06/2020 19:45, Weston Thayer wrote:
> There was a thread
> <https://web-a11y.slack.com/archives/C050D9NHZ/p1580492505053200>
> about this on the web-a11y Slack earlier this year. Firefox's behavior
> does appear to be in conflict with the spec
> <https://www.w3.org/wiki/RadioButton>

That's not really a "spec" though, just a note in a wiki? Unless I'm mistaken, it's not actually normatively defined anywhere how user agents should behave (at least I can't see anything in
https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/input.html#radio-button-state-(type=radio)
at first glance).

So this is more down to Firefox making a deliberate choice of how to interact with these controls, which is arguably neither right nor wrong per any spec. Against convention? Sure. But wrong? Undefined...

P
--
Patrick H. Lauke

https://www.splintered.co.uk/ | https://github.com/patrickhlauke https://flickr.com/photos/redux/ | https://www.deviantart.com/redux
twitter: @patrick_h_lauke | skype: patrick_h_lauke