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Re: Suggestion to simplify ARIA proposal

From: Steve Lee <steve@opendirective.com>
Date: Sun, 10 May 2015 16:38:06 +0100
Message-ID: <CAEsWMvThQsCTqhfxfnQwpzP7UC7QKhuHuE-k-6sM0vOqjULMZQ@mail.gmail.com>
To: "lisa.seeman" <lisa.seeman@zoho.com>
Cc: public-cognitive-a11y-tf <public-cognitive-a11y-tf@w3.org>
As long as all the selected options are always part of the set of  a
clearly related set of 'functions' and we don't shoe horn other
options in as a nice easy fix. We don't want a polymorphic attribute
as there is then extra work to figure out what it means and to perform
validation.


Steve Lee
OpenDirective http://opendirective.com


On 10 May 2015 at 06:12, lisa.seeman <lisa.seeman@zoho.com> wrote:
>
> Suggestion to simplify ARIA proposal at
> https://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/cognitive-a11y-tf/wiki/Syntax_for_adaptable_links_and_buttons
>
> Instead of having lots of new aria roles for different functions we simply
> have one new attribute such as aria-function
> aria-function can then be set to any of types proposed in the issue paper
>
> For example
>
> <a role="button" aria-function="next">
>
> All the best
>
> Lisa Seeman
>
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>
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