- From: Charles McCathieNevile <chaals@opera.com>
- Date: Sat, 01 Aug 2009 14:46:09 +0200
- To: "Maciej Stachowiak" <mjs@apple.com>, "Steven Faulkner" <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
- Cc: "HTMLWG WG" <public-html@w3.org>, "W3C WAI-XTECH" <wai-xtech@w3.org>
On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:00:38 +0200, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com> wrote: > > On Jun 26, 2009, at 1:53 AM, Steven Faulkner wrote: > >> Moving beyond the summary attribute dispute to something I consider >> much more important. >> >> ARIA integration in HTML 5, to date there is no mention of ARIA in the >> HTML 5 spec, I understand that the editor is waiting for ARIA last >> call comments before proceeding, but there is already 1 complete >> implementation in IE 8 and 1 pretty much complete implementation in >> Firefox, while many of the features of HTML 5 have not been >> implemented in any browsers as yet, so i don't understand why work >> cannot start. >> >> One lesson we can take from the summary attribute, is that in order to >> progress with ARIA we need a modified process. >> summary is one attribute, which has taken up countless hours of peoples >> time. >> ARIA has 60 odd attributes and a role attribute with 60 odd values. If >> we (the html working group) deal with ARIA the same way as the summary >> attribute, it will be unworkable. >> >> thoughts? > > I'm assuming integration of ARIA would be either by referencing the ARIA > spec or incorporating it wholesale. Or at least, I don't think sweating > the details of every ARIA attribute would be a good use of the HTML > Working Group's time. I strongly agree with Maciej on this point. If the working group does identify some issue with the spec, I suggest that it would be more productive to refer the issue to the group responsible for developing ARIA than to run a parallel discussion in this group. In part because as far as I know all implementors of ARIA (both browsers and content producers) are following it from the PF working group rather than HTML 5. cheers Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile Opera Software, Standards Group je parle français -- hablo español -- jeg lærer norsk http://my.opera.com/chaals Try Opera: http://www.opera.com
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