- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 11:49:28 +0100
- To: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- CC: John Foliot <jfoliot@stanford.edu>, 'Jonas Sicking' <jonas@sicking.cc>, 'Denis Boudreau' <dboudreau@webconforme.com>, 'HTML Accessibility Task Force' <public-html-a11y@w3.org>, 'HTML WG Public List' <public-html@w3.org>
Maciej Stachowiak wrote: > > On Jan 5, 2010, at 5:06 PM, John Foliot wrote: > >> Really? Last I checked *none* of ARIA has been incorporated into HTML5... >> the only attributes that <table> can take (according to the current draft >> - http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/tabular-data.html#the-table-element) are the >> "Global Attributes" - >> http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/dom.html#global-attributes - and @summary. >> Oh, >> and I double checked at the current Editor's Draft as well - >> http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#the-table-element - and >> nothing >> seems to have changed. > > HTML5 has incorporated all of ARIA for some time, and all aria-* > attributes are allowed on any element, as long as they don't conflict > with strong native semantics. > > Here it is in the latest Working Draft: > http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/embedded-content-0.html#annotations-for-assistive-technology-products > > > Here it is in the Editor's Draft: > http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#annotations-for-assistive-technology-products-aria > > > John, I know you must be aware that ARIA is in the spec because this has > been discussed many times at great length, on the mailing list, at the > telecons, at TPAC, and so forth. These discussions were before, during > and after the inclusion. I think maybe you are getting a little > over-passionate about this issue, and as a result perhaps generating > more heat than light in this thread. Now might be a good time to take > some time out, and then come back later and see if you can communicate > your points in a calm and fact-based way. Well. John checked the definition of <table>, plus the section about global attributes, and didn't find aria-*. So maybe there's something that needs to be enhanced here? With respect to the original discussion: you are right that this is a permathread, so it would be good to have this issue resolved following our decision policy. Best regards, Julian
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