Re: ARIA roles added to the a element should be conforming in HTML5.

On 22/10/09 11:18 AM, Leif Halvard Silli wrote:
> I don't know if a handful of pages can be used to formed an opinion. 
> But if we had info about a handful of UAs that support ARIA, about 
> whether they always let ARIA over-rule the default semantics, then 
> that would definitely be helpful.
>

http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/aria-implementation/#mapping_role

ARIA roles override the implicit host language roles unless there is no 
good mapping from the ARIA role to the desktop accessibility API.

Firefox currently respects ARIA roles where supplied, and falls back to 
host language mappings where necessary.

cheers,
David

Received on Thursday, 22 October 2009 15:45:38 UTC