Re: using the data* attribute to identify element sub roles

Hi Ted,

>What's a sub role?

its a more granular classification of a role.

For example in the OSX accessibility API all HTML elements have a role and
a subrole property

example: the article element:

AXRole: "AXGroup",
AXSubrole: "AXDocumentArticle"

it may well be that it could be defined via ARIA, but that tends to imply a
categorization that its only an accessibility feature, when I wanted to
explore the uses including, but not limited to accessibility.

regards

Steve


On 18 February 2013 20:30, Edward O'Connor <eoconnor@apple.com> wrote:

> Hi Steve,
>
> You wrote:
>
> > allow the data attribute [1] to be used to identify element sub roles:
> >
> > examples:
> >
> > <h1>heading</h1>
> > <p data-p="subheading">subheading</p>
> […]
>
> What's a sub role?
>
> Are you trying to express WAI-ARIA's super/subclass role relationships?
> If so, I think it would be best to raise the need for an aria-subrole=""
> attribute with the folks working on WAI-ARIA.
>
> If that's not what you meant, what do you mean? Wildly guessing based on
> the examples in your email, it seems like you're asking for the ability
> for an author to imbue elements with author-defined semantics. Authors
> can already do this sort of thing with the class="" attribute (e.g. with
> Microformats), Microdata, and RDFa.
>
>
> Ted
>
>