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From: glen walker
Date: Jul 23, 2020 3:18PM

I'm a little confused by this statement: "developers...using ARIA Grid
controls since apparently tables do not allow for automatic scrolling".

Using an ARIA attribute should have no effect on the behavior of an
element. ARIA attributes are hints to assistive technology. See
https://www.w3.org/TR/aria-in-html/#nativesemantics which says, "Adding an
ARIA role will not make an element look or act differently for people not
using assistive technology. It does not change the behaviours, states and
properties of the host element but only the native role semantics."

That statement is talking about the role attribute specifically, but can be
applied to aria-* attributes too.

So when you say having an aria grid allows automatic scrolling but native
tables do not, I don't follow why that's true.


On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 2:49 PM Don Mauck < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> We have developers who for reasons such as continuous scrolling from the
> bottom using ARIA Grid controls since apparently tables do not allow for
> automatic scrolling. So, are there ways to use grids using table commands
> in the same way?
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> Currently Grids don't even show up as any of the JAWS form elements and
> you can only use cursor keys within the Grid. This really limits the JAWS
> user from having any kind of pleasant experience with these grids. Are
> there ways to make these grids more usable to a screen reader? Especially
> since ARIA-Grid is out there and has several table attributes. Thank in
> advance for reading and maybe giving this some thought.
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> Don Mauck | Senior Accessibility Evangelist | Accessibility Program Office
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