Re: ARIA or RDFA?

+1 to Rich & Steve I think RDFA will just add to confusion in the dev community.

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On 3 Aug 2015, at 18:24, "Steve Lee" <steve@opendirective.com<mailto:steve@opendirective.com>> wrote:

+1 to Richard

RDF is understood / popular in academic circles and of course TBL for the semantic web but I don't think anywhere else such as general web dev community.

We dev is complex enough already - just see recent posts by PPK and Bruce Lawson :)

https://dev.opera.com/blog/on-a-moratorium-on-new-browser-features/


Steve Lee
OpenDirective http://opendirective.com

On 3 August 2015 at 17:22, Richard Schwerdtfeger <schwer@us.ibm.com<mailto:schwer@us.ibm.com>> wrote:

My experience is that many people simply don't understand RDF. It was a tremendous hurdle getting people to adopt and understand ARIA. Introducing yet another technology would be a significant undertaking.


Rich Schwerdtfeger

<graycol.gif>"lisa.seeman" ---08/03/2015 09:50:15 AM---Liddies proposal was to use RDFa whereever possible inplace of an aria extentionThe simplese case wo

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Date: 08/03/2015 09:50 AM
Subject: ARIA or RDFA?

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Liddies proposal was to use RDFa whereever possible inplace of an aria extention
The simplese case would look like
<button type="button" property="http://scehma.org/coga/terms/save">default</button>
in place of

<button type="button" aria-function="undo" >default</button>


There are many ways to write it such as
<body vocab="http://scehma.org/coga/terms ">
<button type="button" property="save">default</button>
this might make it harder for simple user agents to parse and manipulate it.  I also think in some cases it makes it more complex to use.

I do not think  everything will work as RDFa such as aria-importance or aria-numberfree, so we would still be doing an aria extension.


I think we should look at the metadata  and see if there is a more RDF compatible way to write it. However the linked data inline should be only for easyread alternatives.

All the best

Lisa Seeman

Athena ICT Accessibility Projects <http://accessibility.athena-ict.com/>
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