[orca-list] labelledby property for ARIA landmarks

[Christian Steinert <christian_steinert web de>]

Dear all,

I hope that this is the right channel for this question.

I trying to use ARIA landmarks on a web site and use Orca for testing.
The problem - or at least the surprise that I am facing is, that the aria-labelledby property seems to be 
ignored for landmarks (whereas it does work for live regions).

Consider the following snippet of HTML:

  <h1 id="hdr">title text</h1>
  <div aria-labeledby="hdr" role="navigation" >
    <h2>sub-heading</h2>
    more content...
  </div>

When I press the  "m" key, then orca will read "sub-heading" instead of "title-text". Is this behavior 
intended? 

Also, it seems that there are no default descriptions for semantic landmark regions like "main". If I have 
the following HTML
  <div role="main" >
    <p>here comes the main content...</p>
  </div>
then Orca will read "here comes the main content..." when I use the "m" key to navigate to that region. I 
would have thougt that Orca would instead provide a default description for this region, e.g. "main content".

I use Orca 2.26.1 together with Iceweasel 3.0.9 on Debian/Testing.

Am I misunderstanding the usage of landmark sections? If so, any kind of precise documentation that you can 
point me to would be muchly appreciated. I have read the ARIA spec, the ARIA best pratices document and 
various other descriptions about ARIA (including one from Leventhal and one from Lemon) but everyone mainly 
seems to be interested in live regions and not so much in landmarks and precise behavior seems to be a little 
under-specified in these documents.

If I should file a bug, then please tell me, where to file it. In the gnome bug tracker, I did not see a the 
possibility to tie a bug specifically to Orca. Also, in that case please let me know if you have any special 
bug filing conventions that I should be aware of.

To everybody who is helping with the development of Orca: thank you very much for your very hard work. The 
progress that Orca has made over time is really exceptional and it is wonderful that you are pushing new 
accessibility developments like ARIA.

Thanks & Best Regards
Christian Steinert
______________________________________________________
GRATIS für alle WEB.DE-Nutzer: Die maxdome Movie-FLAT!
Jetzt freischalten unter http://movieflat.web.de