Re: [aapi] live roles

David,

If someone is using table markup to format the the out put of an IRC chat, then the user would miss the information.

Jon


---- Original message ----
>Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2009 21:42:05 -0500
>From: David Bolter <david.bolter@utoronto.ca>  
>Subject: [aapi] live roles  
>To: "wai-xtech@w3.org" <wai-xtech@w3.org>
>
>Hi,
>
>There are some 'live' roles like "log" and "marquee". The Mozilla team
>is considering these aria roles with respect to platform accessibility
>API mapping.  One strategy is to not let these particular aria roles
>override the native markup mapping. So something like
>
><table role="log">
>
>would continue to map to whatever role the native/host language element
>regularly mapped to (e.g. ROLE_TABLE).
>
>Thoughts?
>
>David
>
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