Re: editorial work on HTML spec

Hi Peter, thanks for feedback, comments inline

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Regards

SteveF
HTML 5.1 <http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/>


On 5 January 2014 21:31, Peter Grucza <pgrucza@gmail.com> wrote:

>  On 04/01/2014 10:20 AM, Steve Faulkner wrote:
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>  I have also added a non normative reference table: Allowed ARIA roles,
> states and properties<http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/index.html#allowed-aria-roles,-states-and-properties>
>  which is linked to in the examples above.
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>  Just a couple of comments,
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> I'm not sure if this is possible but wouldn't the reference table: Allowed
> ARIA roles, states and properties<http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/index.html#allowed-aria-roles,-states-and-properties>be better placed in section 3.2.7 WAI-ARIA? "ARIA role attribute" already
> references tables in this section. I'm finding it odd that the content is
> being split the way it is currently.
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Sounds reasonable, I have moved it there for now, lets see if anybody
argues to the contrary.

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> Is there a plan to include or mention the required properties as part of
> Allowed ARIA state and property attributes<http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/dom.html#state-and-property-attributes>for each element? This would be in addition to "For role value" information
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> As an example a checkbox might be similar to ...
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> Allowed ARIA state and property attributes:
>     Global aria-* attributes
>     For role value checkbox and menuitemcheckbox
>   Required aria-checked (state)<http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/states_and_properties#aria-checked>
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> could do, let me have a look and see if it is workable.

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> Thanks, the additions that are being made are helpful.
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np, thats the motivation - to make the spec more useful/friendly to authors

> Peter
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