[Bug 11798] New: It has been brought to my attention by some browser vendors that browsers don't actually implement accessibility API annotations exactly the way the ARIA spec says to; instead, they have default mappings from HTML directly to the accessibility APIs that t

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=11798

           Summary: It has been brought to my attention by some browser
                    vendors that browsers don't actually implement
                    accessibility API annotations exactly the way the ARIA
                    spec says to; instead, they have default mappings from
                    HTML directly to the accessibility APIs that t
           Product: HTML WG
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
               URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#ann
                    otations-for-assistive-technology-products-(aria)
        OS/Version: other
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P3
         Component: HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson)
        AssignedTo: ian@hixie.ch
        ReportedBy: contributor@whatwg.org
         QAContact: public-html-bugzilla@w3.org
                CC: ian@hixie.ch, mike@w3.org,
                    public-html-wg-issue-tracking@w3.org,
                    public-html@w3.org


Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/complete.html
Section:
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#annotations-for-assistive-technology-products-(aria)

Comment:
It has been brought to my attention by some browser vendors that browsers
don't actually implement accessibility API annotations exactly the way the
ARIA spec says to; instead, they have default mappings from HTML directly to
the accessibility APIs that they use unless an explicit role="" has been
given. So it might make sense to change this section so that it is nothing but
conformance criteria for authors, removing the UA conformance criteria
relating to ARIA and platform AAPIs from the HTML spec altogether.

Posted from: 76.102.14.57 by ian@hixie.ch

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Received on Wednesday, 19 January 2011 08:20:09 UTC