- From: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>
- Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2007 15:51:15 +0200
- To: "Anne van Kesteren" <annevk@opera.com>, "Matthew Raymond" <mattraymond@earthlink.net>, public-html@w3.org
- Cc: wai-xtech@w3.org
On Mon, 01 Oct 2007 13:11:19 +0200, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com> wrote: > I believe the requirements of the proposal we're talking about are: > > 1. The ability to specify a widget type. > 2. The ability to specify a fallback widget type in case the > widget type is not supported. > 3. The ability to specify widget properties. > 4. The ability to do this consistently for both HTML and XHTML > 5. The ability to also do this for other XML markup (SVG, etc.). > > Of these 1, 3, 4 and 5 are addressed by Simon's proposal > http://simon.html5.org/specs/aria-proposal for ARIA. I would suggest we > address 2 by making role= an _ordered_ space-separated list of values > where the first value is used or, if it's not supported, the second, > etc. If none is supported the element has no widget type. This would > enable things like: > > <div role="aol-buddylist list"> > > (This fallback proposal is from Henri Sivonen if I remember correctly.) I've changed the authoring definition to say ordered instead of unordered. I've also updated the algorithm to support custom roles. -- Simon Pieters Opera Software
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