1829046 - Consider adding some Gecko roles for cleaner ARIA role mapping

Status: NEW

(Core :: Disability Access APIs, task)

Description

[James Teh [:Jamie] (away returning 14 Apr)]

ComputedARIARole was added in bug 1824935. There were a few roles that required hard-coded exceptions because they map to a Gecko role and they aren't landmarks, but the role they map to isn't unique. For example, role="alertdialog" maps to Gecko roles::DIALOG, but that is also used for role="dialog". Having dedicated Gecko roles for these would make this cleaner.

The roles in question are alertdialog, feed, rowgroup and searchbox. Note that rowgroup also has mappings from HTML tbody/tfoot/thead which should also be changed.

We might also want to consider having individual Gecko roles for landmarks instead of a catch-all landmark role, but that's a much bigger lift.

Comment 1

[James Teh [:Jamie] (away returning 14 Apr)]

A rowgroup role was added in bug 1849160.