Re: linking work on processing WAI-ARIA markup in HTML

On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Al Gilman wrote:
> 
> I see by your Tracker that you have an ISSUE-35 on "aria processing." 
> http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/35

There are three issues blocking the adoption of ARIA proposals in HTML5:

 1. ARIA isn't being developed in the open. It is unlikely that we would 
    adopt wholesale anything that wasn't developed in a completely open 
    manner, with open public participation and a completely public 
    feedback loop. I mentioned this in:
    http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-pfwg-comments/2008AprJun/0004.html

 2. ARIA specifications lack clear normative conformance criteria. I gave 
    a bunch of examples of this in:
    http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-pfwg-comments/2008JanMar/0102.html

 3. ARIA doesn't define how ARIA works in conjunction with existing 
    features in HTML4, HTML5, and other specs. For example, if the HTML5 
    "required" attribute indicates that a form control is required when 
    the ARIA required attributes indicates that it is not. This was the 
    second problem listed in:
    http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-pfwg-comments/2008JanMar/0102.html
    ...and was also mentioned in this e-mail which was cc'ed to you:
    http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2008Feb/0342.html

Unless and until these three issues are addressed, I don't see any way in 
which the ARIA proposals can be adopted in HTML5.

Cheers,
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