- From: Matthew Raymond <mattraymond@earthlink.net>
- Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 11:30:33 -0400
- To: mark.birbeck@x-port.net
- CC: public-html@w3.org
Mark Birbeck wrote: > 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. That's because the |role| attribute, as currently defined, requires namespaces for all role names that aren't predefined. That can only be done in XHTML. [Snip!] > I'm pretty certain that it is unnecessary and @role can easily be used > in HTML and XHTML. Only for the small set of role names that are predefined, which means you can kiss ARIA goodbye, and ARIA is the biggest selling point of |role| in the first place. My point, though, was that you don't necessarily need to tie ARIA to |role| or XHTML to begin with. And since we have to support the use of |class| for existing microformats, it's largely redundant.
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