Re: Using ARIA to override semantics

On 03/21/2011 06:51 AM, Henri Sivonen wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-03-20 at 06:28 -0400, Sam Ruby wrote:
>
>> Even better, can you propose specific text which would clarify the
>> situation?
>
> Sure:
>
> - -
>
> The presence of ARIA attributes in a document SHOULD NOT have observable
> effects in user agents compared to the absence of the attributes beyond
> what is exposed to assistive technologies and the effects that generally
> arise from having any attributes present in the DOM (the attributes
> being available via getAttribute, etc., and attribute selectors matching
> on the attributes' presence in the DOM). In particular, the presence of
> ARIA attributes MUST NOT affect CSS pseudoclass matching and SHOULD NOT
> affect user interface modalities that don't use assistive technologies.
>
> - -
>
> If the above paragraph is something that the PFWG does not mean, I think
> discussing what *is* meant by the PFWG definitely needs further
> discussion.

Thanks!  To be clear, I am not endorsing the specific suggestion, but 
the overall approach to quickly converge on spec clarity.

- Sam Ruby

Received on Monday, 21 March 2011 12:58:31 UTC