Re: @required and @disabled - strong or weak ? (was RE: Does the HTML5 required attribute have the same accessibility affect as aria-required for an ARIA defined widget?)

On May 8, 2014, at 4:06 PM, James Nurthen <james.nurthen@oracle.com> wrote:

> There is a huge backwards-compatibility argument to allowing <input type="text" aria-required="true"> to act as a required field to the AT APIs.

The same argument applies to <input type="text" required aria-required="true"> and no one is opposed to allowing authors this redundancy for the sake of backwards-compatibility.