ARIA faq

The third faq answer says: "A number of open source JavaScript toolkits 
already implement ARIA techniques, and support by browsers and assistive 
technologies is increasing. A list of ARIA implementations is available 
- where ?-"

This speaks to my main (over-cynical?) response to the entire issue: 
When? I would like to see some move towards encouraging W3C member 
companies who make the browsers most everyone must use be more active 
participants in this process.

In a world wherein even CSS has taken about ten years to be usefully 
included in browsers, it's hard to work on the details of implementation 
when the prospects of meaningful inclusion are so elusive.

Having said that, I will now start to try to study the quite excellent 
document with respect rather than skepticism. It seems at first reading 
to be almost entirely about JavaScript (I wonder what happened to the 
idea of calling it ECMAScript?), which I personally never got into but I 
understand that removing the barriers to widget access matters to our 
clientele.

It might do to expand on the notions "role" and "state" in this document 
else its appeal will be too narrow?

Love.

Received on Monday, 17 December 2007 10:44:33 UTC