- From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:29:28 -0700
- To: John Foliot <jfoliot@stanford.edu>
- Cc: HTMLWG WG <public-html@w3.org>, W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 4:23 PM, John Foliot <jfoliot@stanford.edu> wrote: > Ian Hickson wrote: >> Conformance is about what developers _should_ do, however. > > There is however no real penalty for non-conformance, so that really doesn't > mean a whole bunch in the grand scheme of things. If however you truly > believe that conformance is "...what developers _should_ do...", then they > _should_ add ARIA role information to any element that they have > 'repurposed' via scripting and CSS, to, as Steven states "Make sense out of > non-sense" for users of AT. And to do this 'legally' the spec must say they > can... I would say that in may cases they _should_ use a correct element instead. / Jonas
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