Re: 'role' should be property from Mark Birbeck on 2007-05-25 (public-html@w3.org from May 2007)

From: Mark Birbeck <mark.birbeck@x-port.net>
Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 14:48:29 +0100
To: "Matthew Raymond" <mattraymond@earthlink.net>
Cc: "Andrew Fedoniouk" <news@terrainformatica.com>, public-html@w3.org
Message-ID: <640dd5060705250648t4ecadb03s3ce74eec64d76d6d@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Matthew,

>    Why can't be just standardize a way of using ARIA with HTML[1]?

The proposal you link to is very odd. :) The authors use @role in
other situations, such as XHTML, but for some reason not in HTML. I
think it might be caused by a problem with the W3C validator, which I
believe was incorrectly flagging documents with extra attributes as
being invalid (HTML says that extra attributes should just be
ignored). This probably led them to try to find another solution, but
I'm pretty certain that it is unnecessary and @role can easily be used
in HTML and XHTML.

Regards,

Mark

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