Re: process for getting ARIA in HTML to 1st public working draft

Hi Shane, so this:

> *3.2.7.1 ARIA Authoring Requirements*
> Authors may use the ARIA role
> <http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/infrastructure.html#attr-aria-role> and
> aria-* attributes on HTML elements
> <http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/infrastructure.html#html-elements>, in
> accordance with the requirements described in the ARIA specifications,
> except where these conflict with the requirements specified in ARIA in
> HTML <https://specs.webplatform.org/html-aria/webspecs/master/>.


This is only an amendment to text that is in HTML5
<http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/dom.html#wai-aria>

Authors may use the ARIA role
> <http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/infrastructure.html#attr-aria-role> and aria-*
> attributes on HTML elements
> <http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/infrastructure.html#html-elements>, in
> accordance with the requirements described in the ARIA specifications,
> except where these conflict with the strong native semantics
> <http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/infrastructure.html#strong-native-semantics>
> described below.
>

The updated text points to the document conformance requirements now
located in the ARIA in HTML spec, rather than referring to the tables of
requirements in the HTML spec.

ARIA has always allowed host languages to define document conformance
criteria for use of ARIA, as described in
http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/host_languages

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Regards

SteveF
HTML 5.1 <http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/>

On 2 March 2015 at 13:22, Shane McCarron <shane@aptest.com> wrote:

> Sorry - the wording that Paul quoted (I was in my car):
>
> *3.2.7.1 ARIA Authoring Requirements*
>
> Authors may use the ARIA role
> <http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/infrastructure.html#attr-aria-role> and
> aria-* attributes on HTML elements
> <http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/infrastructure.html#html-elements>, in
> accordance with the requirements described in the ARIA specifications,
> except where these conflict with the requirements specified in ARIA in
> HTML <https://specs.webplatform.org/html-aria/webspecs/master/>.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 2:26 PM, Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> > On 2 Mar 2015, at 12:14, Shane McCarron <shane@aptest.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > I am somewhat concerned with that wording. It implies that this
>> document supersedes aria.  Is that what was intended?
>>
>> Which wording?
>
>
>
>
> --
> Shane McCarron
> Managing Director, Applied Testing and Technology, Inc.
>