Re: Questions arising from ARIA/HTML5 integration

notel removing pf-public comments address.

Hi maciej,
>Upon rereading the original statement from PFWG on ARIA integration[1],
it's not entirely clear to me if elements with "strong native semantics"
need to >map to an ARIA role. A clarification from PFWG would be greatly
appreciated.


It is my understanding that ARIA to HTML element mapping is not a
requirement. though it is useful to understand where there is and is not a
relationship between  host language semantics and ARIA semantics.

regards
stevef

2009/9/1 Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>

>
> On Aug 21, 2009, at 6:04 PM, Ian Hickson wrote:
>
>
>> What roles should I use for the following elements?
>>
>>  <input type=date>
>>  <input type=time>
>>  <input type=datetime>
>>  <input type=datetime-local>
>>  <input type=month>
>>  <input type=week>
>>  <input type=color>
>>  <input type=file>
>>  <meter>
>>  <time>
>>  <keygen>
>>  <dl>/<dt>/<dd>
>>  <abbr>
>>  <ruby>/<rt>/<rp>
>>  <ins>/<del>
>>  <figure>/<legend>
>>  <iframe>/<embed>/<object>
>>  <video>
>>  <audio>
>>  <caption>
>>  <thead>/<tbody>/<tfoot>
>>  <fieldset>/<legend>
>>  <details>/<legend>
>>
>
> It seems to me these don't exactly match any existing ARIA role, but at
> least some of them should be treated as having native semantics. In some
> cases, minting a new ARIA role would not make sense. For example, there's no
> way to replicate the effects of <input type=file> with a different element,
> so creating a new role just for the sake of mapping would not be a useful
> effort.
>
> Upon rereading the original statement from PFWG on ARIA integration[1],
> it's not entirely clear to me if elements with "strong native semantics"
> need to map to an ARIA role. A clarification from PFWG would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> Similarly, it seems like some attributes that create "implicit ARIA
> semantics" don't map in a clear one-to-one way to ARIA properties or states.
> It would be good to still avoid conflicting markup even if the native HTML
> feature can't be cast exactly in ARIA terms. I believe that was the root of
> most of Ian's other questions. Again, input from PFWG would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> Maciej
>
> [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2009Aug/0962.html
>
>
>
>


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