Re: HTML 5 and ARIA

Disclaimer: This is a personal response and does not represent a 
consensus decision made by the HTML-WG.

Dave Hodder wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How does HTML 5 integrate with the Accessible Rich Internet 
> Applications specification <http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/>?
It is planned to allow aria in HTML 5 but the (not inconsiderable) work 
needed to define processing requirements for this integration has not 
yet happened. See [1] for more information.
> There is a lot of overlap between the two, and at present HTML 5 
> doesn't mention ARIA at all.
Indeed; that overlap is one of the main reasons why this has not 
happened yet. I have a vague plan to look at this in more detail 
sometime, but I don't know how soon that will happen. If you want faster 
progress, we could try setting up a wiki page or something to enumerate 
the questions that need to be answered.

[1] http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/35

Received on Monday, 3 March 2008 22:05:32 UTC