- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 09:52:25 +0300
- To: Sander Tekelenburg <st@isoc.nl>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org, wai-xtech@w3.org
On Oct 5, 2007, at 04:33, Sander Tekelenburg wrote: > At 13:11 +0200 UTC, on 2007-10-01, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > >> On Mon, 01 Oct 2007 12:27:52 +0200, Matthew Raymond >> <mattraymond@earthlink.net> wrote: > > [... @role] > >> It's part of the hopefully short-term, stop-gap measure, that >> provides >> "afterthought" accessibility for widgets created using JavaScript, >> HTML >> and CSS. > > I can't follow. I thought @role indicates meaning. What does > accessibility > have to do with this? Accessibility is the motivation for communicating the meaning. The ARIA proposal is about communicating meanings that are applicable to AT integration. Turning role='' into a catch-all device risks turning it into <object>--something that does everything in theory but doesn't do any of it well in practice. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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