1375290 - Additional handling of aria-errormessage in conjunction with missing aria-invalid is needed

Status: NEW

(Core :: Disability Access APIs, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Joanmarie Diggs]

(Spun off from bug 1374697)

Some issues:

1. Authors MUST use aria-invalid in conjunction with aria-errormessage, but we're not checking for the presence of a non-false value of aria-invalid.

2. As best as I can tell, there is no spec stating that failed user-agent validation of an input should be treated the same as or mapped to, aria-invalid="true". I've asked about that in https://github.com/w3c/html-aam/issues/47#issuecomment-310221640.

Plus Alex indicated in bug 1374697 that the commit history would be more readable if the ATK mapping and sanity checking were two separate bugs.

Comment 1

[David Bolter [:davidb] (NeedInfo me for attention)]

This is something we should triage and fix but isn't among our most urgent bugs.(Contributions welcome as always!)