- From: Schnabel, Stefan <stefan.schnabel@sap.com>
- Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:22:06 +0200
- To: "Steven Faulkner" <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>, "Al Gilman" <Alfred.S.Gilman@ieee.org>, "W3C WAI-XTECH" <wai-xtech@w3.org>, "Bruce Lawson" <brucel@opera.com>
In my opinion it is a intolerable situation that most html validity checkers currently treat aria markup as alien life forms. But I understand that that their developers wait for ARIA Candidate Recommendation Status before they touch any finger to code. - Stefan -----Original Message----- From: wai-xtech-request@w3.org [mailto:wai-xtech-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Steven Faulkner Sent: Dienstag, 30. September 2008 11:07 To: Al Gilman; W3C WAI-XTECH; Bruce Lawson Subject: [LIKELY JUNK]Re: conformance checker for HTML+ARIA? hi david, thanks for your response, > That wouldn't really make sense. It would be more logical to create an > HTML 4 + ARIA DTD and validate against that. I admit i don't have a good grasp of the mechanics. So my questions were probably not posed correctly, but your response helps define what may be needed reach a the goal. > If it has ARIA in it, then their HTML (by any current W3C recommendation > that I know of) isn't valid. You can't fix this problem at the tool > level, you need to address it at the standards level. anybody have any ideas on how we move this forward? Is it a desirable goal? regards stevef 2008/9/30 David Dorward <david@dorward.me.uk>: > Steven Faulkner wrote: >> Can we build ARIA checking into the W3C validator so that ARIA >> conformance can be checked seemlessly with HTML whatever the version? >> > That wouldn't really make sense. It would be more logical to create an > HTML 4 + ARIA DTD and validate against that. > >> People seem to want a form of checking provided by the W3C that will >> tell them (for example) that their HTML code is valid and their ARIA >> code is valid. >> > If it has ARIA in it, then their HTML (by any current W3C recommendation > that I know of) isn't valid. You can't fix this problem at the tool > level, you need to address it at the standards level. > > (Please address responses to the validator mailing list, and not > directly to me, thanks). > > -- > David Dorward > http://dorward.me.uk/ > > -- with regards Steve Faulkner Technical Director - TPG Europe Director - Web Accessibility Tools Consortium www.paciellogroup.com | www.wat-c.org Web Accessibility Toolbar - http://www.paciellogroup.com/resources/wat-ie-about.html
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