- From: Jon Gunderson <jongund@illinois.edu>
- Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 10:53:49 -0600 (CST)
- To: "David Bolter" <david.bolter@utoronto.ca>, wai-xtech@w3.org
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 > Jon Gunderson, Ph.D. Coordinator Information Technology Accessibility Disability Resources and Educational Services Rehabilitation Education Center Room 86 1207 S. Oak Street Champaign, Illinois 61821 Voice: (217) 244-5870 WWW: http://www.cita.uiuc.edu/ WWW: https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/jongund/www/
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