27297 2014-11-11 10:38:11 +0000 DOM needs a way to get element's computed ARIA role and computed label string 2019-03-29 19:35:40 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WHATWG HTML unspecified PC All RESOLVED MOVED P2 normal Unsorted 27294 1 zcorpan ian annevk d faulkner.steve ian jcraig mike philipj public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking contributor oldest_to_newest 114783 0 zcorpan 2014-11-11 10:38:11 +0000 +++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #27294 +++ DOM needs a way to get element's computed ARIA role and computed label string. For example: partial interface Element { // These might not need to be an accessors methods. // Could be string properties instead. String computedRole(); String computedLabel(); }; 114859 1 ian 2014-11-12 19:14:43 +0000 Wouldn't this be an ARIA bug? 116435 2 philipj 2014-12-17 21:44:32 +0000 https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/blink-dev/WToTEn4lveY is what I've been able to figure out about this. If I'm correct in guessing that this would fall back to https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#wai-aria then the HTML spec seems like the natural place. Disclaimer: I know nothing about ARIA. 116445 3 ian 2014-12-18 01:09:37 +0000 I don't see what HTML has to do with this. Sure, HTML defines some default semantics. So do, or might, SVG, MathML, HypotheticalRandomNewML, etc. The API has nothing to do with HTML itself as far as I can tell. It's either an ARIA feature, or maybe a DOM feature, or its own feature, IMHO. 116465 4 philipj 2014-12-18 08:32:42 +0000 OK, I'll suggest shopping around for another spec or writing a new one. 116466 5 philipj 2014-12-18 08:37:37 +0000 Anne, do you think this would make sense in DOM? 123015 6 annevk 2015-09-02 08:43:06 +0000 Ideally this would be defined in the same place that defines attribute ? role; I even think that for role they could be the same feature, using the "limited to known values" thingie. 128747 7 annevk 2017-07-21 10:44:36 +0000 Since HTML currently doesn't define either role or aria-* this seems out of scope for the moment. 128761 8 jcraig 2017-07-21 11:25:10 +0000 The concept of computed role does not rely on the role content attribute. These aspected existed in web content before ARIA was conceived. For example: <h1> returns a computed role of "heading" in any browser. <a href> returns a role of link. The ARIA roles in the @role attribute can override the default: <a href> // link <a href role="button"> // button But it will be ignored in some contexts: <button role="foo"> // button Likewise, the fallbacks are computed: <button role="switch checkbox"> // 'switch' in an ARIA-1.1-capable engine, or 'checkbox' in an ARIA-1.0-capable engine 128786 9 annevk 2017-07-25 09:36:17 +0000 That's fair, but currently HTML doesn't define any of that. It arguably should, but we'd need someone to put in the time. 129662 10 d 2019-03-29 19:35:40 +0000 https://github.com/WICG/aom