- From: Justin James <j_james@mindspring.com>
- Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2008 01:03:00 -0400
- To: "'James Craig'" <jcraig@apple.com>
- Cc: "'Anne van Kesteren'" <annevk@opera.com>, "'Leif Halvard Silli'" <lhs@malform.no>, <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>, <public-html@w3.org>, "'W3C WAI-XTECH'" <wai-xtech@w3.org>, <www-tag@w3.org>
James - > I think you may have missed the point of my JavaScript example. It was > just one way you could insert ARIA semantics into the DOM by flagging > an HTML class or id, or for that matter, by any CSS selector. The > example was not my recommendation for how it should always be done. Ah, gotcha, thanks! > One thing you could do is to help ensure that all of the ARIA > semantics get rolled into HTML 5. I fully support this, and I will be looking out for it. I think that ARIA is too important to be *not* rolled 100% into HTML. First, it eliminates many of my gripes with HTML as a presentation layer for application development (HTTP is still wholly inadequate for the task...), by finally (15 years too late) providing a mechanism for AT systems to "get" HTML. Secondly, it provides a way to get really darned close to the semantic Web ideal. Thanks again for your input on this! J.Ja
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