- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 09:47:47 +0200
- To: "T.V Raman" <raman@google.com>, ian@hixie.ch
- Cc: connolly@w3.org, www-tag@w3.org
On Thu, 22 May 2008 01:10:46 +0200, T.V Raman <raman@google.com> wrote: > The following is simply bizarre and should be rationalized > between now and last call: > > <input type=checkbox checked> > > vs > > <span role="aria-checkbox" aria-checked="true"> The former represents a checkbox control and the latter represents nothing though it fakes a checkbox control towards assistive technology. As such, they are quite distinct. My understanding is that we need the latter because designing your own user interface for the former is currently near impossible leading authors to reimplement the control using a span or div element. In order to make that accessible they need a low level accessibility API to expose the relevant information to assistive technology. (It's role="checkbox" by the way, no need for a prefix there.) -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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