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associationlist and related roles have tediously long names #1662
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associationlist and related roles have tediously long names. These look like ObjC naming conventions: associationlist:item:value: ;-)
associationlist: A section containing associationlistitemkey and associationlistitemvalue elements.
associationlistitemkey: A single key item in an association list.
associationlistitemvalue: A single value item in an association list.
I don't have a particular preference other than "not what's there" but in the interest of forwarding the discussion, I'd suggest the following:
- Remove
associationlistentirely. I don't think there needs to be any distinction betweenlistandassociationlistin the Accessibility APIs. listitemkeyandlistitemvaluemay be sufficient. It's possiblelistitemvaluecould be an alias oflistitem… I'm not certain, but the existence of a key may be all that's needed to distinguish between standard lists (~html:ol/html:ul) and these (~html:dl)
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pkra commentedon Dec 16, 2021
Related: #961
smhigley commentedon Dec 16, 2021
+1 to the first option
medeaoblongata commentedon Feb 1, 2022
It would simplify matters to permit the key/value roles inside list, whatever they may be called. (I agree the currently suggested names are too long).
What happens if people use key & value elements and plain listitem elements in the same list? Is that a problem?
If this is about parity with HTML, it should not be allowed, but I can imagine cases where it would be useful to do so. (e.g. if there is a placeholder listitem for an as-yet-unknown key-value pair).
pkra commentedon Apr 28, 2022
I'm in favor of the OP.
I have a slight preference for keeping
listitemvalue(or whatever name we come up with) separate fromlistitembecause of the different (possible) structure of 1 DT followed by multiple DDs.scottaohara commentedon May 5, 2022
@jnurthen going to add myself here as a second assignee. we can discuss / i can do the associated HTML AAM stuffs.
associationlist and related roles have tediously long names
jnurthen commentedon Oct 10, 2023
Lets discuss 3 options:
cookiecrook commentedon Oct 16, 2023
+1 for removing association lists [entirely]
jnurthen commentedon Oct 26, 2023
As discussed in https://www.w3.org/2023/10/26-aria-minutes.html#t07 will remove for now but may re-add a subset later on
cookiecrook commentedon Aug 15, 2024
@aleventhal discovered we have some leftover expectations related to this, including invalid computedrole and invalid name-prohibited computedlabel tests
editorial: update roleInfo.js (manually) (#2624)
zcorpan commentedon Sep 24, 2026
The current
termanddefinitionroles used fordtandddin html-aam are incorrect per HTML's defined semantics, so it would be good to update them to something else. (See w3c/html-aam#347)