Re: [g-a-devel] HTML 5 figure and figcaption elements.

[Piñeiro <apinheiro igalia com>]

On 11/09/2011 11:07 AM, Alexander Surkov wrote:
> Hi. HTML 5 provides two new elements figure and figcaption that seems
> to don't have a good way for ATK mapping.
>
> The proposal is:
> 1) introduce new ATK role for figure element like ROLE_FIGURE
> 2) use ROLE_CAPTION for figcaption element
> 3) make figure and figcaption accessible objects related by label relations

This proposal seems sensible, but I have a question.

>From the resources, on the figure description I can read this:

"The element can thus be used to annotate illustrations, diagrams,
photos, code listings, etc,"

In that sense, it seems that most of the elements that will be assigned
this new ATK_ROLE_FIGURE role, has right now a ATK_ROLE_IMAGE. So, my
question:

  * Is there any case of a FIGURE not being a IMAGE?
  * And the opposite, is there any case of a IMAGE not being a FIGURE?

My main concern here is the usual of someone having problems to figure
out which one should be used. I guess that this is not a issue on IA2,
as I didn't find a ATK_ROLE_IMAGE equivalent here:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Accessibility/AT-APIs/IA2/Roles

>
> Resources:
> w3c: http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/grouping-content.html#the-figure-element
> example: http://www.w3schools.com/html5/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml5_figure
> TPG blog: http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/2011/08/html5-accessibility-chops-the-figure-and-figcaption-elements/
> Mozilla bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=658272
> IA2 thread: http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/accessibility-ia2/2011-November/001550.html
>
> I would love to hear your feedback.
>
> Thank you.
> Alex.
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