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Re: conformance checker for HTML+ARIA?

From: Gez Lemon <gez.lemon@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:46:32 +0100
Message-ID: <e2a28a920809300246s7267150ciee023e82cf3fe16@mail.gmail.com>
To: "W3C WAI-XTECH" <wai-xtech@w3.org>

Hi Jason,

2008/9/30 Jason White <jason@jasonjgw.net>:
>
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 10:25:23AM +0100, Gez Lemon wrote:
>
>> It doesn't resolve the whole issue of ensuring that ARIA is used
>> correctly with a native markup language, but if the ARIA specification
>> is available in a machine readable format (such as what attribute
>> values are valid for a particular attribute, and what attributes can
>> be used with particular roles in RDF), we could build a basic
>> validator to ensure at least the ARIA part is used according to its
>> specification.
>
> Yes, but unless the validator includes a Javascript interpreter and a DOM
> implementation, all that can be checked are the Aria attributes of the
> document prior to the execution of scripts that modify it.
>
> Anything involving live regions or Javascript functions that change states or
> properties would largely escape any lesser validator. Maybe the validator
> needs to be written as a user agent extension that can verify correctness as
> changes are made.

Yes, that's a good point. It could be written as an extension or bookmarklet.

Cheers,

Gez


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