Near the end of section 1 ( http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/#usecases ), it says: ARIA is intended to be used as a supplement for native language semantics, not a replacement. When the host language provides a feature that is equivalent to the ARIA feature, use the host language feature. Please add the clarification "authors SHOULD" ARIA is intended to be used as a supplement for native language semantics, not a replacement. When the host language provides a feature that is equivalent to the ARIA feature, authors SHOULD use the host language feature. Reason: In the HTML Working Group, a number of comments have been made based on the understanding that ARIA annotations should be not be available to scripts or CSS unless they conflict with the default semantics of the element. There was even some concern about defining the semantics in terms of aria roles/properties/states, because those were somehow reserved for non-standard uses. -jJReceived on Tuesday, 29 September 2009 20:43:58 GMT
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