Re: using the data* attribute to identify element sub roles

On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 8:36 AM, Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Ted,
>
> >What's a sub role?
>
> its a more granular classification of a role.
>
> For example in the OSX accessibility API all HTML elements have a role and
> a subrole property
>
> example: the article element:
>
> AXRole: "AXGroup",
> AXSubrole: "AXDocumentArticle"
>
> it may well be that it could be defined via ARIA, but that tends to imply
> a categorization that its only an accessibility feature, when I wanted to
> explore the uses including, but not limited to accessibility.
>


Did you have any ideas for other uses? If not, indeed aria-subrole seems a
good approach.

Silvia.