- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 18:35:53 +0300
- To: Aaron M Leventhal <aleventh@us.ibm.com>
- Cc: Al Gilman <Alfred.S.Gilman@IEEE.org>, public-pfwg-comments@w3.org, W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>
On Apr 1, 2008, at 17:26, Aaron M Leventhal wrote: > > * The live region states and properties are used without an explicit > > role on span. Perhaps it would make sense to move the live region > > states and properties to global states and properties. > Totally agree. Anything can be live. I believe the current internal > draft has that as a feature: > http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/Group/aria/ It seems that Member-only areas of w3.org aren't working for me today. Anyway, before this access control glitch, I chose not to implement according to the Member-only draft in order to avoid leaking secrets in the public source code of Validator.nu. It would be nice if the Editor's Drafts were public. > > * Of the states and properties I opted not to support in this draft, > > aria-hidden is actually used by the demos. Is it too late for > > irrelevant? On the other hand, the other states and properties that > Why not have HTML 5 use hidden? It's more obvious what it ,means. > Irrelevant just sounds like the opposite of relevant from XForms, > which definitely does not mean hidden -- it just means enabled. 'irrelevant' is a semantic fig leaf since 'hidden' is supposedly presentational. I would prefer calling it 'hidden'. Also, others have complained that 'irrelevant' is counter-intuitive and allegedly hard to spell for native English writers. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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