- From: Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net>
- Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 13:35:54 -0500
- To: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Cc: Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>, Joseph Scheuhammer <clown@alum.mit.edu>, "wai-xtech@w3.org" <wai-xtech@w3.org>
Leif Halvard Silli writes: > I gather that you have faith in ARIA as such, but not in this detail. > It would be interesting to know why. > The ARIA TF is still considering LC comments, especially on the UAIG. The Status Sections in our documents clearly say not to rely on them. Yet, the docs are being cited as though the guidance there is settled. That's wrong and can easily be disruptive. The proper course, imho, would be to reach out the the ARIA TF (or PF itself) and ask. In fact none of this discussion was even cross-posted to the HTML-A11Y TF though we've repeatedly asked the HTML Chairs to please do so when issues of particular interest arose on the main WG list. So, OK, I did spot the issue and advised our group. We will discuss the HTML approach, together with the various approaches we've been considering. The point is that the whole of ARIA is at stake, not just how to get around longdesc with clever tricks. ARIA-Hidden is there for a number of reasons and use cases that are fairly complicated to think through clearly. And yet, that is what we have to do to insure that ARIA is a robust and reliable specification. The HTML-WG doesn't, of course, have that kind of stake in ARIA success. So, my answer to you, the thing I keep asking myself in all of this--yet another Latin phrase--Cui bono.? Janina -- Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.443.300.2200 sip:janina@asterisk.rednote.net Chair, Open Accessibility janina@a11y.org Linux Foundation http://a11y.org Chair, Protocols & Formats Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/wai/pf World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
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