Aria-* vs html attributes and reflection

As best I can tell, including from the table

http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#annotations-for-assistive-technology-products-aria

the following should always be true:

    equivalent attributes -- maybe just alternate names for the same property?
	disabled ~= aria-disabled
	required ~= aria-required
	readonly ~= aria-readonly

    slightly more complicated because of HTML rules
	checkededness ~= aria-checked
	selectedness ~= aria-selected

and, for numeric elements

	element's maximum ~= aria-valuemax
	element's minimum ~= aria-valuemin
	element's value parsed as a number ~= aria-valuenow
		(if it can't be parsed as a number aria-valuenow is either the
default value or undefined)

(1)  Should this be stated explicitly?
(2)  Should the aria-* versions reflect changes made to the HTML
versions.  (I think so, but wasn't sure.)
(3)  If the aria-* versions are set, does that also change the HTML
version?  (I think it should, but couldn't find that in the spec.)  Or
is it impossible to change the aria-* versions directly, because
they'll immediately reflect back to the HTML version?

-jJ

Received on Wednesday, 23 September 2009 16:46:06 UTC