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A role specifically for pagination #1669

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prlbr opened this issue Dec 25, 2021 · 4 comments
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A role specifically for pagination #1669

prlbr opened this issue Dec 25, 2021 · 4 comments

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@prlbr
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prlbr commented Dec 25, 2021

While preparing a pagination feature for the search results of my search module I discovered that accessibility guides consistently recommend or demand wrapping the links/buttons in a HTML <nav> element with aria-label="pagination".

However, my search module can be used on websites in arbitrary human languages. This means that I or a community effort would have to translate aria-label="pagination" for numerous languages. Any other developer will have to do the same. And honestly I didn't even know how to translate “pagination” into my own mother tongue before looking that up.

Since pagination is such a typical feature of websites I propose introducing a pagination role, which screen readers could announce in whatever language their user desires. This would be in analogy to the roles search and searchbox which I already use in my search module.
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Malvoz commented Jan 3, 2022

There's a related WICG discourse thread: https://discourse.wicg.io/t/nav-type-attribute-proposal/2241.

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jnurthen commented Jan 6, 2022

Closing at this time. Please follow up on the WICG thread referenced above and reopen once there is consensus.

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prlbr commented Jan 7, 2022

Please follow up on the WICG thread referenced above and reopen once there is consensus.

I won't. The WICG thread has been inactive for over 4 years and is/was a significantly broader proposal than mine here. I have no interest in getting involved with it. No offense.

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jnurthen commented Jan 7, 2022

@prlbr totally understand but adding a new role is a considerable ask.

The consensus in the linked thread seemed to be moving towards this being an attribute of a nav rather than its own role. I'd be much more open to this - we are already fighting role overload and don't want to add even more without considerable benefit.

Another approach could be making the dpub doc-pagelist role more widely supported by AT - this would seem to be exactly the concept you are needing https://www.w3.org/TR/dpub-aria-1.0/#doc-pagelist

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