Re: proliferation of reference roles in the dpub aria spec.

On Fri, 09 Oct 2015 02:17:09 +0200, Richard Schwerdtfeger  
<schwer@us.ibm.com> wrote:

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> As I said, I have had somewhat of a concern about the numerous  
> definition of roles that are essentially links. The Coga task force  
> wants to introduce and aria-destination >attribute for links to create  
> standard destinations users would go to to enable consistent style of  
> the UI for familiarity to the user.
> See the aria-destination attribute from coga:  
> https://rawgit.com/w3c/coga/master/issue-papers/links-buttons.html
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> So for these roles I would prefer to have:
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> <div role="link" aria-destination="biblioentry"> as opposed to  
> http://rawgit.com/w3c/aria/master/aria/dpub.html#dpub-biblioref
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> similarly:
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> <div role="link" aria-destination="glossentry" as opposed to  
> http://rawgit.com/w3c/aria/master/aria/dpub.html#dpub-glossref
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> This would cause us to start folding in some of the coga features into  
> ARIA 1.1.
> Feedback? Coga has similar needs.
This is what the rel= attribute is for. Which makes it easier to extend  
the functionality without needing an assistive tech plugged in to the  
accessibility API.

cheers
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> Rich
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>> Rich Schwerdtfeger



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