- From: Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>
- Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2010 11:58:12 -0400
- To: Steven Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- CC: public-html@w3.org
On 06/06/2010 10:40 AM, Steven Faulkner wrote: > On 06/05/2010 09:34 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: >> Don't allow people to use ARIA to write inaccessible documents. > > ARIA does not allow people to write inaccessible documents. Vague > statements and lack of machine checkable conformance criteria in the > HTML5 specification in relation to the overloading and overriding of > elements default semantics and behaviours is the cause. ARIA merely > provides the author with the opportunity to communicate her authoring > intentions unambiguously via an accessibility API. > > >ARIA is useful for authors who need to make new widgets that HTML doesn't >> yet support. Buttons are supported by HTML, and therefore there is no >> reason for an author to make a link act like a button to ATs. > > ARIA is also useful when authors for whatever reason decide to modify > or extend the behaviour of a supported HTML element, which they often > do.`q Examples? >> Making a link act like a button to ATs while leaving it as a link for >> non-AT users will lead to non-AT users having a confusing experience, >> since the author will think the link is going to appear as a button to >> users and may refer to it as such. > > If it is acts like a link then it should be presented as a link to all > users, if it acts like a button the it should be presented to all > users as a button. making a link look and act like a button for some > users, but not conveying this to other users will result in a > confusing experience. Do you both agree with the following statement? Making a link act like a button to non-ATs while leaving it as a link for AT users will lead to AT users having a confusing experience, since the author will think the link is going to appear as a button to users and may refer to it as such. > regards > Stevef - Sam Ruby
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