Re: Proposal: ARIA-ROLE & CSS definition integration

On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 12:29 AM, Justin James <j_james@mindspring.com> wrote:
>
> I have another proposal idea for the group. From what I can tell, the
> aria-role (or aria:role, depending upon the outcome of the giant
> colon/hyphen debate) attribute is for tags only. I propose that it be
> possible to define the aria-/:role in CSS. For example:
>
> div.checkbox {aria-role: checkbox;}
> <div class="checkbox">Blah blah blah</div>
>
> The div would be treated as if @aria-role="checkbox" had been specified.
>
> Comments?

I will never have guessed that ARIA is presentational only. CSS is
optional, is it the same for accessibility ?

-- 
Olivier G.
http://www.lespacedunmatin.info/blog/

Received on Wednesday, 4 June 2008 10:43:43 UTC