Re: draft of HTML to Platform Accessibility API mapping table

Hi Cynthia,

Sorry for the delay in proofing this; and I probably don't have the 
right context for this document but I'd like clarification on why ARIA 
is included as a mapping here. As we know, ARIA is quite a different 
animal than desktop accessibility API. I worry that including it among 
MSAA etc. is going to cause confusion to readers. The concept of mapping 
to ARIA from HTML is presumably included for DOM based AT (which don't 
really exist yet), but DOM based AT could do this mapping themselves as 
they see fit right? I mean if the semantics are already there in the 
HTML element, why map to ARIA? ARIA was invented purely to override the 
HTML semantics for cases where the HTML semantics are broken visually 
(overridden) by DHTML techniques.

To be clear, no one is suggesting the browser will itself automatically 
add aria attributes to the DOM right?

cheers,
David

On 24/06/10 9:58 AM, Cynthia Shelly wrote:
> Here's a draft of the HTML element to Platform Accessibility API mappings.  It would be great if we could discuss that at next week's mapping sub-team meeting.
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Received on Friday, 25 June 2010 01:26:03 UTC