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From: megha patangi
Date: Dec 21, 2022 4:52AM

Hi Glen,

Thank you for your responses and definitely they gave a bit of clarity to me.

Answering to your questions:
Yes grid is like a spreadsheet which user can edit and so we needed role="grid".

With respect to answer 1:
I liked the answer for row number, as screen reader already announces
the row number and now if we give custom label to it, then it might be
redundant announcement and there can be chances that default render
versus custom render may not match.
And yes the first column containing radio button/ checkbox has column
header, both visual and associated for screen reader.
Thus, you recommend that individual label to these controls in each
cell is not required?

With respect to answer 2:
Using keyboard a user cannot navigate using left/ right arrow keys
inside cell to read character by character as we haven't enabled those
keys to navigate when focus is inside the cell as they were bringing
other complications to our table, as developers can author any sort of
data type inside the cell.
this actually added to complexity and we had to go with modal approach.
Actually for list of links inside a cell, where there are more than
three for all users it will open modal. Just in use cases of till 3
link list we have different interaction for keyboard users in modal.

With respect to answer 3:
yes user can tab to interactive element present just after table. New
data appears only on clicking down arrow within the table, from last
row.

Regards,
Megha





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