Re: ARIA's role="" attribute (was Re: [Bug 7509] Consider <dl type="dialog"> instead of <dialog>)

On 9 Sep 2009, at 23:06, Edward O'Connor wrote:

> You may be confusing ARIA's role="" attribute with the XHTML Role
> Attribute Module.

They share a name, and a namespace, so in my book, they're the same  
attribute.

It's true that WAI-ARIA no longer normatively references the XHTML  
Role Attribute Module. I'm not entirely sure why this is, but it may  
be because it's expected that XHTML Role will only end up as a Note,  
and ARIA is aiming at being published as a Recommendation. (I don't  
think a Recommendation can normatively reference a Note.)

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Received on Thursday, 10 September 2009 08:31:29 UTC