[Role Parity] What do we do about input (type=color)?

[joanmarie]

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[carmacleod]

role="color" or role="colorinput"?

We already have "time" role for <time> element,
so do we go with "timeinput" role for <input type="time">?
If so, then "colorinput" would be consistent with "timeinput", but more verbose than "color"...

Both Chrome and FF on Win7 render <input type="color"> as a "color well button that pops up a color picker dialog".
So if someone was implementing this today, they might use a read-only combobox with aria-haspopup="dialog".

So I think "color/colorinput" should support aria-haspopup (with all of its tokens).

I don't know if any platforms still implement this as a textbox that only takes hex color values, but presumably someone might want to do that. So they might use a combobox with aria-autocomplete. This would likely be similar to using the list="datalist-id" attribute.

So I think "color/colorinput" should support aria-autocomplete (with all of its tokens).

I don't know how useful the HTML autocomplete attribute is with input type="color", but it is supported. Perhaps one could create colors using autocomplete="postal-code"... 😄

In case it's helpful, here's a basic HTML element test page for trying out the various inputs (and other elements).

[carmacleod]

Regarding naming:

role="color" or role="colorinput"?
We already have "time" role for <time> element,
so do we go with "timeinput" role for <input type="time">?
If so, then "colorinput" would be consistent with "timeinput", but more verbose than "color"...

Since we have always had "checkbox", "radio", and "button", I think it makes more sense to go with role="color".

The time element is very different from input type="time", so we do need to resolve that conflict (in #936), but there's no conflict for "color".

(perhaps input type="time" can be role="timebox" for consistency with role="textbox" for input type="text")
😄

[carmacleod]

See also the discussion starting at comment 8 in Firefox bug 559767 about platform mapping of color input (button, dialog).

[jnurthen]

As detailed at https://github.com/w3c/aria/wiki/Plans-regarding-role-parity#no-consensus-yet-will-do-for-1-3 moving to 1.3

[jnurthen]

Honestly - I don't see any way this is going to happen until HTML color inputs are more standard. Propose closing this as a wontfix.