Re: ARIA in HTML -- a new FAQ, and a proposal

On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 16:25:38 +0200, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>  
wrote:

> role attributes in the http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml namespace on  
> elements not in the http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml namespace are supported  
> and also take a space-separated list of roles.

Unless I'm mistaken, Dojo uses role attributes in the  
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml2 namespace on HTML elements. I would guess that  
Firefox supports that attribute. I am not aware of any content that uses  
the role attribute in the http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml namespace and I  
don't think Firefox supports it.

Given this, I would suggest to allow the role attribute in the  
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml2 namespace on any element and that it takes  
precesense over role attributes in no namespace on elements in the  
http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml namespace, and forget about the role  
attribute in the http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml namespace.

Otherwise I agree with the proposal. :-)

-- 
Simon Pieters
Opera Software