Reference Target #961
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a11y-tracker
Group bringing to attention of a11y, or tracked by the a11y Group but not needing response.
Focus: Accessibility (pending)
Mode: breakout
Work done during a time-limited breakout session
Topic: accessibility
Topic: ARIA
Accessible Rich Internet Applications
Venue: WICG
Milestone
こんにちは TAG-さん!
I'm requesting a TAG review of Reference Target.
Reference Target is a feature that enables using IDREF attributes such as
for
andaria-labelledby
to refer to elements inside a component's shadow DOM, while maintaining encapsulation of the internal details of the shadow DOM. The main goal of this feature is to enable ARIA to work across shadow root boundaries.Further details:
You should also know that...
There have been a number of competing proposals in this area but little progress towards actually shipping solutions in browsers. See https://alice.pages.igalia.com/blog/how-shadow-dom-and-accessibility-are-in-conflict/.
For that reason this proposal is carefully scoped with the goal of identifying pieces of functionality with good prospects of reaching consensus such that they can be shipped and made available to developers, whose feedback will help inform additional work.
Hence, the proposal in the explainer is broken down into two phases. Phase 1 adds the ability to designate a single element as the target for all IDREF properties that refer to the host, while Phase 2 adds the ability to re-target specific properties individually. Breaking it down in this manner may allow us to reach consensus on Phase 1 while the more complex details of Phase 2 are still under discussion.
So if the TAG has feedback or concerns that apply to Phase 2 only, but is happy with Phase 1, it would be helpful for us if that is called out specifically so that Phase 1 can more easily move forward.
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