- From: David Dorward <david@dorward.me.uk>
- Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:35:45 +0100
- To: Aaron M Leventhal <aleventh@us.ibm.com>
- CC: Al Gilman <Alfred.S.Gilman@ieee.org>, Chris Wilson <Chris.Wilson@microsoft.com>, Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>, Steven Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>, hsivonen@iki.fi, "Michael(tm) Smith" <mike@w3.org>, W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>, wai-xtech-request@w3.org, www-archive <www-archive@w3.org>, www-validator@w3.org
Aaron M Leventhal wrote: > > > 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? To not claim to be writing HTML 4. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/
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