Re: ARIA Extensions Definitional Statement

Shane McCarron writes:
> Sorry I missed the discussion.  Optional modules?  Huh.

Indeed, stay tuned! <grin> 

The question remains what, among the growing corpus of ARIA modules,
does a general purpose user agent like IE, Firefox, or Chrome, need to
implement to legitimately claim conformance to ARIA X.Y. Are they all
expected to do D-Pub and SVG? What if some enterprising university
writes up Molecular Biology using ARIA-SVG constructs? Would Firefox
need to directly support that?

We benefit if we can support a Molecular-Biology-ARIA module, but we'd
never get it were we to require direct support in all conforming user
agents.

So, we need a demarcation specified somehow--one which supports those
user agents who care (think of plugins, extensions to Firefox, etc) able
to say: "I implement X-ARIA" without the host browser needing to support
X-ARIA directly.

> 
> On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 1:58 PM, Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net> wrote:
> 
> > A further thought to today's PF discussion on the ARIA Extension
> > statement ..:
> >
> > https://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/wiki/ARIAExtensions
> >
> > May I suggest we tweak the top statement about HTML's extension
> > specification to say:
> >
> > "Note: This model is based upon, but diverges from the HTML Working
> > Group's model for Extension specifications."
> >
> > As we discussed today, we're steering toward optional modules, and HTML
> > extensions are not optional.
> >
> > Janina
> >
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> > Janina Sajka,   Phone:  +1.443.300.2200
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> >                 Email:  janina@rednote.net
> >
> > Linux Foundation Fellow
> > Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup:       http://a11y.org
> >
> > The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
> > Chair,  Protocols & Formats     http://www.w3.org/wai/pf
> >
> >
> 
> 
> -- 
> Shane McCarron
> Managing Director, Applied Testing and Technology, Inc.

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Janina Sajka,	Phone:	+1.443.300.2200
			sip:janina@asterisk.rednote.net
		Email:	janina@rednote.net

Linux Foundation Fellow
Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup:	http://a11y.org

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
Chair,	Protocols & Formats	http://www.w3.org/wai/pf

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