Re: Does the HTML5 required attribute have the same accessibility affect as aria-required for an ARIA defined widget? from Joshue O Connor on 2014-05-08 (wai-xtech@w3.org from May 2014)

From: Joshue O Connor <joshue.oconnor@cfit.ie>
Date: Thu, 08 May 2014 20:14:35 +0100
To: James Craig <jcraig@apple.com>
CC: John Foliot <john@foliot.ca>, Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>, "Gunderson, Jon R" <jongund@illinois.edu>, "w3c-wai-pf@w3.org WAI-PFWG" <w3c-wai-pf@w3.org>, WAI XTech <wai-xtech@w3.org>
Message-ID: <536BD79B.1080402@cfit.ie>

James Craig wrote:
> On May 8, 2014, at 10:34 AM, John Foliot<john@foliot.ca>  wrote:
>
>> ...and James, if I am to understand the bug you filed correctly, you are
>> stating that the native host semantics (i.e. HTML5's semantic) should
>> "trump" ARIA? (I agree with that, but just want to be clear in my own head).
>
> For aria-* attributes, yes. For roles, no. That's in accordance with ARIA 1.0. @role should always win, but @aria-* attributes should defer to any host language attribute that has an identical strong native semantic.

Interesting thread guys, and thanks for clarification James.

Josh

Received on Thursday, 8 May 2014 19:15:07 UTC