Re: [orca-list] Does Orca not respect role="application" on anything other than body elements?

[Nolan Darilek <nolan thewordnerd info>]

Got it. My understanding is that role="application" should override text 
navigability, which is why I'm using it in this instance.


Thanks for the explanation.



On 07/25/2016 10:04 AM, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> Hi Nolan.
>
> I just took a quick glance (as I'm in the middle of something else). But
> as a general rule, Orca respects role="application" on page elements
> when there is not something that looks like caret-navigable text. And
> your paragraph child looks like caret-navigable text.
>
> --joanie
>
> On 07/25/2016 10:48 AM, Nolan Darilek wrote:
> > Working on an HTML-based ebook reader and am experimenting with using
> > role="application" so someone can't arrow down from a menu into ebook
> > text and trash their current position. But it doesn't seem like Orca
> > respects role="application" on non-body elements. Take, for instance,
> > this attached document. If I put role="application" on the body,
> > everything works as expected and I can't arrow around. But with it on
> > the <main/> element, nothing changes.
> >
> > Am I missing something either in the spec, or in some Orca/Firefox
> > setup, that still permits this interaction? Thanks.
> >
> >
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