Re: FW: Update to ARIA processing change proposal ISSUE-199

To avoid cross-posting, I did not include the task force mailing list,
but have replied on this thread at
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2012Jun/0131.html. Michael

Paul Cotton wrote:
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> Resending with Michael Cooper in the To: field and the A11Y TF in the
> CC: field.  I recommend that discussion take place on the
> public-html@w3.org <mailto:public-html@w3.org> email at:
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> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2012Jun/0112.html
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> /paulc
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> Paul Cotton, Microsoft Canada
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> 17 Eleanor Drive, Ottawa, Ontario K2E 6A3
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> *From:* Edward O'Connor [mailto:eoconnor@apple.com]
> *Sent:* Friday, June 22, 2012 9:00 PM
> *To:* HTML WG
> *Subject:* Re: Update to ARIA processing change proposal ISSUE-199
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> Hi,
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> Michael Cooper wrote:
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>     I have updated the ISSUE-199 Change Proposal on ARIA processing,
>     following guidance from the 3 May 2012 discussion and
>     incorporating much of Ted O'Connor's counter proposal. I believe
>     this version covers the agreement of that meeting. Some details of
>     HTML-style spec language may need to be tweaked.
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>     http://www.w3.org/html/wg/wiki/ChangeProposals/ARIA_Processing
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> This revised proposal is definitely much closer to something that I
> think we could find consensus on. Some notes:
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> There's no rationale provided for the changes proposed in the section
> titled "Clarify the existing ARIA section." As the change appears
> entirely editorial, I'd rather we leave it out of a consensus proposal.
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> The text of the "Role attribute" section closely matches the text of
> my proposal. There are two differences:
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> 1. The proposed spec section is titled "Role Attribute," whereas in my
> proposal it's titled "The ARIA role attribute." Because of the
> historical origins of the name of WAI-ARIA's role="" attribute in the
> XHTML Role Attribute Module, I think it's helpful to consistently
> refer to the attribute in spec text as "the ARIA role attribute" to
> avoid the implication that the attribute is intended as a generalized
> vehicle with which to imbue elements with additional semantics.
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> 2. The "split on spaces" paragraph isn't marked as an implementor-only
> section. It probably should be, but I doubt this is an area of
> intentional disagreement.
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> In terms of normative statements, I have no objection to the text in
> the section titled "State and Property Attributes." That said, I find
> this text hard to understand, so I would prefer a consensus proposal
> describe the normative requirements and defer to the editor for the
> precise wordsmithing.
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> Thanks,
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> Ted
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Michael Cooper
Web Accessibility Specialist
World Wide Web Consortium, Web Accessibility Initiative
E-mail cooper@w3.org <mailto:cooper@w3.org>
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