- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 20:26:55 +0200
- To: "Jim Jewett" <jimjjewett@gmail.com>, public-html@w3.org
On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 20:10:53 +0200, Jim Jewett <jimjjewett@gmail.com> wrote: > Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com> wrote: >> If HTML5 were to be supported >> by all vendors ARIA would not even be needed. > > Could you explain that? HTML5 provides most widgets natively which the browser can then expose to assistive technology in some way. So there's no need for the author to implement them by him- or herself and set ARIA attributes on state changes etc. accordingly. > If the html spec simply states: > > Attribute names starting with "aria-" are > reserved for use by the ARIA specification. > These are typically used to improve accessibility. > ... > role attribute values starting with "aria-" are > reserved for use by the ARIA specification. > These are typically used to improve accessibility. > > I think that will cover it. Yes. Although I'm not convinced the other uses of role= make sense. I'm also not sure if overloading role= to do both ARIA and those other things makes sense. -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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