Re: ARIA and the user's rôle

Doug,

I wrote to you, because you specifically asked for comments.
"Please let us know what you think."

I've spent plenty of time reading around ARIA, and am not prepared to  
"lighten up" nor do I consider it self evidently "It's a win".

My comment in brief, is that it appears to be written by developers,  
for developers.
rather than as requested by users.

Nothing you've pointed me to, suggests that users will be better able  
to create accessible documents with ARIA. Corporations and interested  
developers maybe....

did you ever try to use Emacspeak?
could we agree it's not for everyone?
which is not to deny there's a brilliant developer behind it....

kind regards

Jonathan Chetwynd
Accessibility Consultant on Media Literacy and the Internet



On 5 Oct 2007, at 13:56, Doug Schepers wrote:

It's a win, lighten up