Re: ARIA use in HTML other than for accessibility.

[trimming Cc]

Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net>, 2015-05-01 17:54 -0400:
> Archived-At: <http://www.w3.org/mid/20150501215403.GI3847@opera.rednote.net>
> 
> Let me draw your attention to:
> 
> http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/introduction#ua-support
> 
> Which includes the following:
> 
> "The WAI-ARIA specification neither requires or forbids user agents from
> enhancing native presentation and interaction behaviors on the basis of
> WAI-ARIA markup.  Mainstream user agents might expose WAI-ARIA
> navigational landmarks (for example, as a dialog box or through a
> keyboard command) with the intention to facilitate navigation for all
> users. User agents are encouraged to maximize their usefulness to users,
> including users without disabilities."
> 
> The above, taken from the ARIA-1.0 TR continues present in the current
> ARIA-1.1 drafts.

Yet, http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-implementation/ says:

> In general, WAI-ARIA attributes should only affect how content is mapped
> to platform accessibility APIs. They should not affect the visual
> rendering of content or the behavior of mainstream desktop browsers

  —Mike

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