Re: aria vs native alternatives [was: Re: feedback requested on WAI CG Consensus Resolutions on Text alternatives in HTML 5 document]

On Sep 3, 2009, at 14:22, Steven Faulkner wrote:

> how does, for example,  a UA providing keyboard navigation of ARIA  
> landmarks contradict what is stated in Section 7.1[1] in ARIA 1.0?


Keyboard navigation doesn't usually involve an accessibility API at  
all. A UA typically responds to text input methods without AT /  
accessibility API in between.

Thus, if keyboardability were sensitive to ARIA when there's no AT  
involved, ARIA would "interfere" with the usual host language features  
beyond accessibility API mapping.

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Henri Sivonen
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Received on Thursday, 3 September 2009 11:29:15 UTC