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@LaurenceLewis
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@SteveFaulkner as the author of ARIA in HTML would I be correct in interpreting HTML <textarea> as not allowing the inherent role to be overridden?
"No role other than textbox, which is NOT RECOMMENDED" meaning <textarea role=combobox is a violation of the spec. Which specification I’m not sure 🤔
ARIA in HTML for <textarea> says has ‘No role, meaning it indicates that authors MUST NOT overwrite the implicit ARIA semantics, or native semantics of the HTML element’.
Reason I ask is the code copied from Chrome Developer Tools, with classes and other attributes removed for brevity, role combobox overwrite textarea:
<textarea aria-controls="Alh6id" aria-owns="Alh6id" autocomplete="off" title="Search" aria-label="Search" aria-autocomplete="both" aria-expanded="false" aria-haspopup="false" id="APjFqb" maxlength="2048" name="q" role="combobox"></textarea>
<textarea aria-controls="Alh6id" aria-owns="Alh6id" autocomplete="off" title="Search" aria-label="Search" aria-autocomplete="both" aria-expanded="false" aria-haspopup="false" id="APjFqb" maxlength="2048" name="q" role="combobox"></textarea>
I’m interested in the views of screen reader users and other users of assistive technology, and accessibility SMEs think of the Google search component that uses an html textarea with aria-owns to popup a div containing the results. How user friendly is this approach to building search results for users of assistivetech? #google #search #accessibility #aria