Re: WAI ARIA on mobile

Hello,

Peter Westwood, Marco Zehe and I had a quick discussion about this on
twitter (see http://twitter.com/MarcoZehe/status/2727754646 for
Marco's response).

But if anyone has any information on issues with WAI ARIA (other than
a lack of support) in mobile browsers, I'd love to know about it.

Thanks,

-jeff



On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Phil Archer <phila@w3.org> wrote:
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> Greetings from Mobile Land...
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> One of the participants in our Introduction to W3C Mobile Web Best Practices course [1], Jeff Van Campen of the London Web Standards Group [2], raised this issue on the discussion forum. As that forum isn't public, I'm copying his mail here as I don't know the answer and I'm interested to know!
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> === Jeff's message begins===
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> I was at WordCamp UK over the weekend (along with fellow Mobile Best Practice students Laura Kalbag and Gicela Morales).
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> As a part of a hacking session Laura, myself and a few other WordPresser were looking at modifying Kubrick, the default WordPress theme, to work in a mobile context.
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> One of the issues we ran into is that Kubrick includes WAI-ARIA roles as of WordPress 2.8.
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> As we were working, we removed them, as this made validation easier.
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> I understand that WAI-ARIA isn't supported on any mobile browsers yet, but I'd like to add them to the code for two reasons:
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> 1. So that the code is future proof
> 2. So that they are discoverable by people examining the code, who may not know about WAI-ARIA
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> That brings me to two questions:
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> 1. Does anyone know of any issues with WAI-ARIA roles in existing mobile browsers?
> 2. Is it likely that WAI-ARIA will be included as a module in a future version of XHTML Basic?
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> === ends ===
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> [1] http://www.w3.org/2009/03/mobitrain_course_description.html
> [2] http://londonwebstandards.org/
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> --
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> Phil Archer
> W3C Mobile Web Initiative
> http://www.w3.org/Mobile
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> http://philarcher.org
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Received on Tuesday, 21 July 2009 21:34:35 UTC