- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 18:38:54 +0300
- To: Henry S.Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
- Cc: "www-tag@w3.org" <www-tag@w3.org>, "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>, "public-xhtml2@w3.org" <public-xhtml2@w3.org>, "wai-xtech@w3.org" <wai-xtech@w3.org>
On May 15, 2008, at 17:23, Henry S. Thompson wrote: > Today At some point in the future Do you have a strategy for transitioning from "today" to "at some point in the future" including a compelling reason why parties outside the TAG should invest their time and money into the transition and forgo the accessibility benefit that could be attained with a course of action that doesn't require an infrastructural transition and has network benefits from interoperability? Furthermore, the whole point of ARIA is retrofitting AT-compatibility into the existing Web applications without requiring infrastructural changes, so requiring changes to the DOM and parsing infrastructure misses the point. > Known issues: > > 1) CSS will not work for IE, _may_ be fixed in IE8; > 2) GetAttribute will not work for Safari version 2.0 and earlier (but > works in 3.1); > 3) SetAttribute will not work for Opera (but this is a bug against > the existing DOM specs. and they _should_ be willing to fix it!) The aria-foo approach does not have these issues. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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