| Missing official support for range input types | @Adam Stankiewicz (on behalf of Maham Akif) | Form.Control (docs) supports several native input types:
text textarea select password date number time
However, there exists at least one use case for an accessible range input type: <input type="range"> - HTML: HyperText Markup Language | MDN Form.Control technically does support passing type="range", however it provides no theming support as it renders a natively styled range control.
Playground Demo Notes: Usability issues? What other theming concerns? Other use cases? What’s built-in to the component vs. up to the consumer? [Jeff] We might have had a range slider use case before. We should try to dig it up. a11y Numeric value might not always be user-friendly (e.g., for screen readers). Ideally can provide a user-friendly label instead of the numeric value. [Adam] Tried this with VoiceOver with the above POC, but couldn’t get it to read the user-friendly label (would always read the numeric value instead, even with aria-valuenow (or the related attribute).
General preference for native HTML types over custom element with aria attributes. Focus styling?
Next steps Create Paragon issue, that we do want this to be officially supported. Check in if we can link the new issue to a relevant PR for future reference, to ensure it suits the needs.
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