Re: Keeping Accessibility in mind

On 20 November 2012 17:38, Pablo Olmos de Aguilera C.
<pablo@glatelier.org> wrote:

> I'm totally in and I totally agree with the importance of A11Y :). I
> have a question though (and sorry my ignorance). There's some plan to
> use something like html5 + aria? Seeing that people are moving away
> from xhtml in favor of html. I guess we'll have to move there
> eventually?

With XHTML + aria as our first transform target, once we have a syntax
and semantic
definition, I think HTML5 can wait.


>
> I see one issue. if I understand right the idea would be for example,
> establish a way to add those role attributes to content. If that will
> be to the implementation to do it or inside the markup would start
> with the assumption that the first implementation (John's G.) would
> turn to be immediately "not complying with the standard". It's not
> that I worship that, but it's something that we have to have in mid.

Then we need careful wording. When / if we define an XHTML transform,
the output side will require the specification of appropriate attributes.

HTH



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