- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 06:47:31 +0000 (UTC)
- To: public-pfwg-comments@w3.org
- Cc: wai-xtech@w3.org
ARIA has a lot of attributes, all but one of which are prefixed with the string "aria-". Is there any chance we could also prefix role="" with "aria-", as in aria-role=""? I understand that in some host languages, the attribute has other purposes as well, but it would be useful if, in the host languages where that isn't the case, the attribute was prefixed. It would keep all the attributes together in indexes and tables in implementations, it would make it easier for authors to see their accessibility API work, and it would highlight the link between the various attributes. It would also allow ARIA to be used in vocabularies that already have a role="" attribute (aria-* attributes are far less likely to already exist than role=""). -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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