Re: ISSUE-85 anchor-roles partial Change Proposal

Hi maciej,

I do not plan to pursue this change proposal as it is superseded by the new
proposal.


regards
Steve

On 8 July 2010 10:35, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com> wrote:

>
> Hi Steve,
>
> It's ok to separately pursue the broader set of ARIA changes, but they seem
> out of scope for the existing ISSUE-85. I understand that the broader
> proposal has now been submitted as a bug report and so will wind its way
> through the system. In the meantime, your options are:
>
> 1) Update the ISSUE-85 change proposal with the required rationale, and
> then we can proceed with resolving this specific issue. If you intend to do
> that, please do so by July 15th.
>
> 2) If you do not care to update this Change Proposal, we will consider it
> abandoned. At that point, Ian's proposal for issue 85 will be the only one
> remaining, so we will issue a call for consensus on it.
>
> If you definitely do not plan to update your existing Change Proposal
> further, it would be much appreciated if you could let us know.
>
> Regards,
> Maciej
>
>
>  On Jun 23, 2010, at 4:00 AM, Steven Faulkner wrote:
>
>  Hi sam,
>
> >This change proposal proposes a number of new values for a/@role, but only
> justifies a subset of these.  For example, there is no rationale provided
> for <a >role="scrollbar">.  Either the change proposal needs to be updated
> with more complete rationale, or scoped back to only permit the new values
> for which >rationale has been provided.
>  At this time the Accessibility taskforce ARIA mapping subgroup is
> finalizing the spec text for a wholesale replacement of what is currently
> known as section 3.2.6 Annotations for assistive technology products
> (ARIA)<http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/embedded-content-0.html#annotations-for-assistive-technology-products-aria> in
> the HTML5 spec.
>
> The replacement can be found here:
> http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/misc/HTML5/aria-html5-proposal.html NOTE
> this is still being edited and has NOT been presented to the accessibility
> taskforce for further discussion or a consensus decision. It is expected
> this will be ready for the taskforce to begin its review thursday 24th june.
> The accompanying change proposal will incorporate the changes requested and
> supersede the following change proposals:
>
> # Allow the a element to have ARIA role attribute values other than link
> http://www.w3.org/html/wg/wiki/ChangeProposals/ARIAonanchor
> # Change the title of the WAI-ARIA section of the HTML5 spec and provide
> advice about ARIA scope
> http://www.w3.org/html/wg/wiki/ChangeProposals/ariasection
>
> The new change proposal will provide a rationale for the changes in
> http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/misc/HTML5/aria-html5-proposal.html
>
> Note: The new  change proposal will not provide attribute value
> by atrtibute value rationales for each cahnge from the current spec text,
> but a set of reasons for the overall changes. If rationales are requested at
> the level of each individual change to the current spec text, then it should
> also be requested that such rationales with the same level of detail be
> provided for the current spec text and ANY counter proposal.
>
>
>
>


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with regards

Steve Faulkner
Technical Director - TPG Europe
Director - Web Accessibility Tools Consortium

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