That is unfortunate. I understand that the DPUB people want to go back to
@rel for the special links currently specified in dpub-aria.
Keep in mind this will require:
New Accessibility API mappings for @rel in HTML 5 that do not exist
today. Currently @rel is not mapped.
Adding @rel to SVG
Dealing with the problem that @rel references a my words (a cesspool) of
meta data semantics that any mapping to platform accessibility APIs
would need to sift through.
Figuring out how to fund AT Vendors to support the new accessibility api
mappings across platform.
I currently don't support this approach but I am not going to fight it
either. I agree that it does not make sense to create multiple roles for
each type of link. This is reflected in the current specifications.
Rich
Rich Schwerdtfeger
From: "Siegman, Tzviya - Hoboken" <tsiegman@wiley.com>
To: "DPUB-ARIA (public-dpub-aria@w3.org)" <public-dpub-aria@w3.org>
Date: 01/13/2016 08:58 AM
Subject: [dpub-aria] 20160114 meeting cancelled
The 2016-01-14 DPUB-ARIA meeting is cancelled
We’ll pick up again shortly.
Tzviya Siegman
Digital Book Standards & Capabilities Lead
Wiley
201-748-6884
tsiegman@wiley.com
