- From: Ben Boyle <benjamins.boyle@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:17:49 +1000
- To: "Henri Sivonen" <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Cc: "HTML WG" <public-html@w3.org>, public-pfwg-comments@w3.org
Interesting. Other than having the semantic type of 'search' (and benefits outlined here), does it function pretty much like a text input? How does it differ? On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 7:09 PM, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi> wrote: > > The WAI-ARIA draft has a landmark role 'search': > http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/#search > > Safari implements <input type=search> which gives the right widget on > Mac OS X and is already used on top sites apple.com and facebook.com. > > I think <input type=search> is preferable over role=search because > getting the right visual widget gives designers an incentive to flag > the search field as a search field without having to do an > afterthought accessibility annotation pass. Thus, with <input > type=search> the accessibility landmark comes 'for free' from the > author point of view. > > <input type=search> has excellent fallback behavior. In browsers that > don't know about <input type=search>, it degrades gracefully to <input > type=text>. > > I suggest adopting <input type=search> in HTML and, thus, removing the > need for an accessibility-specific annotation for search. > > -- > Henri Sivonen > hsivonen@iki.fi > http://hsivonen.iki.fi/ > > > >
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