RE: modified ARIA mapping for header and footer elements.

I think this new mapping is ok... it would of course be better if there was
a one to one match of header and footer with ARIA, but... this is the best
approach given the situation...

 

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From: Steve Faulkner [mailto:faulkner.steve@gmail.com] 
Sent: March-01-13 1:49 AM
To: HTML Accessibility Task Force
Subject: Fwd: modified ARIA mapping for header and footer elements.

 

 

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
Date: 28 February 2013 22:36
Subject: modified ARIA mapping for header and footer elements.
To: HTMLWG WG <public-html@w3.org>


Hi all, 

I have modified [1] the ARIA mapping for the header and footer elements
after recent face to face discussion with Mozilla acc engineers and NVDA
screen reader implementer who agreed that converging on the webkit
implementation for these elements would be a good thing and lead to
interoperable implementation of accessibility info.

details in bug: https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=21164

Please review at your leisure, feedback welcome!

[1]
https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/6c5c62dbc4c6674d41b263c4aea6659103995b8f
https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/1f21a4350491fc4309a7b25c615472cc8e670902
(added a word I missed in initial commit)

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with regards

Steve Faulkner




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