Bug 206252

Summary:	AX: Implement support for ARIA 1.3 comment role, including auto/manual group position (ARIA Annotations)
Product:	WebKit	Reporter:	Aaron Leventhal <aleventhal>
Component:	Accessibility	Assignee:	Nobody <webkit-unassigned>
Status:	NEW ---
Severity:	Normal	CC:	jcraig, jdiggs, marco.zehe, webkit-bug-importer
Priority:	P2	Keywords:	InRadar, WPTImpact
Version:	Safari 12
Hardware:	All
OS:	All

Description Aaron Leventhal 2020-01-14 12:37:59 PST

A new role in ARIA called "comment" is intended to help support ARIA annotations. The ARIA spec PR for it is https://github.com/w3c/aria/pull/1135.

It should automatically compute its level, setsize and posinset when not provided.
The level is based on counting comment ancestors until the root.

Note: it is currently implemented in Chrome behind the flag
--enable-features=AccessibilityExposeARIAAnnotations

Comment 1 Radar WebKit Bug Importer 2020-01-14 12:38:10 PST

<rdar://problem/58577502>

Comment 2 James Craig 2020-03-04 16:46:24 PST

Aaron requested public comment. I can confirm that Apple Accessibility Engineering has no concern with the ARIA Annotations proposal and intends to implement the comment role. I can't promise a specific date though.

Comment 3 James Craig 2023-03-21 00:40:33 PDT

https://github.com/w3c/aria/issues/1885