- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 11:09:38 +0200
- To: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>, public-pfwg-comments@w3.org
The WAI-ARIA draft has a landmark role 'search': http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/#search Safari implements <input type=search> which gives the right widget on Mac OS X and is already used on top sites apple.com and facebook.com. I think <input type=search> is preferable over role=search because getting the right visual widget gives designers an incentive to flag the search field as a search field without having to do an afterthought accessibility annotation pass. Thus, with <input type=search> the accessibility landmark comes 'for free' from the author point of view. <input type=search> has excellent fallback behavior. In browsers that don't know about <input type=search>, it degrades gracefully to <input type=text>. I suggest adopting <input type=search> in HTML and, thus, removing the need for an accessibility-specific annotation for search. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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