- From: Jim Jewett <jimjjewett@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 03:08:56 -0400
- To: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 2:30 AM, Henri Sivonen<hsivonen@iki.fi> wrote: > On Aug 18, 2009, at 08:33, Jim Jewett wrote: >> Please allow the use of "aria-role" for the purposes currently filled >> by the "role" attribute in all processing related to aria. > Too late. Implementations have shipped. > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/wai-xtech/2009Mar/0123.html It is too late to say "Don't use a bare 'role' ", but I don't think it is too late to say "Also support 'aria-role' " or even "if 'role' and 'aria-role' disagree, believe 'aria-role' ". The shipped implementations won't have that extra piece of functionality, but things that do work won't stop working. (And since aria-* is invisible metadata, I suspect it won't even lead to many opportunity costs -- the people who switch to the more consistent 'aria-role' in the very short term are likely to be people who were already having error-prone on this attribute.) -jJ
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