So right now I'm grappling with an issue in AccName where braille users want something different than screen-reader users.
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So right now I'm grappling with an issue in AccName where braille users want something different than screen-reader users.
WOW that would be so much to implement though.
But the more I think about it, the more I am convinced that we need to be able to deliver different solutions to different AT.
I need to convince some browser devs of this idea, though.
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But also, I think we might need to choose a tradeoff in the meantime.
DAMMIT I wish I wrote browser code because THIS WOULD BE A COOL IDEA TO MAKE HAPPEN THO
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@a11yMel aria-braillelabel exists: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility/ARIA/Attributes/aria-braillelabel
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@yatil yeah but that doesn't fix the issue unfortunately
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@a11yMel Ok, then I don’t understand the issue
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@yatil hahah
It's like, how do we handle whitespace (accname repo has a project with various whitespace related issues)
which is related to how to do we uppercase (and we don't have a differentiation for abbreviations AND acronyms AND initials)
Deep dive coming soon but I'm like, really trying here and it's like the spidermans all pointing at each other right now
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@yatil @a11yMel
Does it not fix the issue because there's no support for it?How is it meant to work? Is the accessibility tree supposed to have two names for things, the name and the Braille name? Are AT supposed to parse the DOM themselves and override the name in the tree with the `aria-braillelabel` value?
Don't some people use a braille display while listening to a screen reader? Maybe that's no worse than seeing visual differences to what a screen reader says.
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@svgeesus I'm the co-editor of accname spec, we're literally working on the issues now
I just had a moment of clarity today and often think out loud on my mastodon feed (for better or worse)
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@cwilcox808 I promise to post a deep dive article soon but right now it's just...not going to be enough. There are reasons.
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Chris Lilley 🏴replied to Melanie last edited by
@a11yMel OK cool. Just saw this in passing and didn't want it to get lost.
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Melaniereplied to Chris Lilley 🏴 last edited by
@svgeesus thank you ^_^