Intent to Ship: aria-brailleroledescription and aria-braillelabel

[Valerie Young]

Contact emails
aleve...@chromium.org, spect...@igalia.com

Explainer
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility/ARIA/Attributes/aria-brailleroledescription
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility/ARIA/Attributes/aria-braillelabel

Specification
https://w3c.github.io/aria/#aria-brailleroledescription

Summary
Add the aria-brailleroledescription and aria-braillelabel attributes.

These ARIA attributes can be used to override the role description or accessible name for an element when the output of a screen reader is directed to a braille device, primarily for purposes of brevity.

See https://w3c.github.io/aria/#aria-brailleroledescription
and https://w3c.github.io/aria/#aria-braillelabel

Blink component
Blink>Accessibility

TAG review

TAG review status
Not applicable

Risks
Interoperability and Compatibility
There are none.

Gecko: Shipped/Shipping And all aria* attributes are exposed by default in firefox.

WebKit: Shipped/Shipping (https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=220719)

Web developers: No signals

WebView application risks
Does this intent deprecate or change behavior of existing APIs, such that it has potentially high risk for Android WebView-based applications?
No

Debuggability
you will see "aria-brailleroledescription" and "aria-braillelabel" in the dev tools and accessibility tree by default.

Will this feature be supported on all six Blink platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux, Chrome OS, Android, and Android WebView)?
Yes

Is this feature fully tested by web-platform-tests?
Yes, https://github.com/web-platform-tests/wpt/pull/35323

Flag name

Requires code in //chrome?
False

Tracking bug
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1289234

Estimated milestones
No milestones specified

Anticipated spec changes
Open questions about a feature may be a source of future web compat or interop issues. Please list open issues (e.g. links to known github issues in the project for the feature specification) whose resolution may introduce web compat/interop risk (e.g., changing to naming or structure of the API in a non-backward-compatible way).

Link to entry on the Chrome Platform Status
https://chromestatus.com/feature/5166332144779264

This intent message was generated by Chrome Platform Status.

[Yoav Weiss]

LGTM1. Thanks for catching us up here!

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[Mike Taylor]

LGTM2

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[Daniel Bratell]

LGTM3

/Daniel

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