Re: conformance checker for HTML+ARIA?

> Aaron M Leventhal wrote:
> > W3C can use a multi-pronged solution:
> > 1. Short term: create new DTD and ask W3C to host it. It can be
> > considered "beta" for now.  It needs to include HTML 4 + tabindex
> > changes (allow negative numbers and on any element) + WAI-ARIA.
> The prose of HTML 4.01 is explicit as to the values allowed. A DTD
> claiming to be HTML 4.01 should not add laxness to allow additional
> non-conforming values to be valid.
Well, all the major browsers support this now, and it's part of HTML 5.

>From a practical point of view we need it for accessibility. What's your 
counter-proposal in order to allow authors with validation requirements to 
be able to use ARIA?

- Aaron

Received on Tuesday, 30 September 2008 13:34:08 UTC