ARIA Proposal

HTML WG, XHTML2 WG, PFWG,

Not so long ago a proposal was posted to public-html and wai-xtech for a  
way to make ARIA work in HTML:

    http://www.w3.org/mid/OF2D24F329.A053FA4B-ON8525735C.00544B50-8525735C.0054A743@us.ibm.com


I have over the past few days with help from Aaron Leventhal and others  
written up a draft for how this should work. The goals and constraints we  
had when writing the proposal were:

   * It should be possible to use in both (X)HTML and other vocabularies
     without the need for scripting.

   * The processing should be the same for both HTML and XHTML.

   * It should be possible to author new content that works in Firefox 2.

   * The number of different possible ways to use ARIA should be minimized,
     and include only variations that are necessary.

   * The proposal should be directly implementable in Firefox 3 and Opera
     9.5.


The proposal is available at:

    http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2007Sep/att-0106/aria-proposal.html

The latest version is available at:

    http://simon.html5.org/specs/aria-proposal


Comments welcome.

Cheers,
-- 
Simon Pieters
Opera Software