Re: linking work on processing WAI-ARIA markup in HTML

On 31 Jul 2008, at 12:11 PM, Dan Connolly wrote:

>
> We talked about this in our 24 July teleconference;
> sorry for the delay..
>
> On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 20:52 +0000, Ian Hickson wrote:
>> On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Al Gilman wrote:
>>>
>>> I see by your Tracker that you have an ISSUE-35 on "aria  
>>> processing."
>>> http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/35
>>
>> There are three issues blocking the adoption of ARIA proposals in  
>> HTML5:
>>
>>  1. ARIA isn't being developed in the open. It is unlikely that we  
>> would
>>     adopt wholesale anything that wasn't developed in a completely  
>> open
>>     manner, with open public participation and a completely public
>>     feedback loop. I mentioned this in:
>>     http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-pfwg-comments/ 
>> 2008AprJun/0004.html
>
> I think we've gotten far enough on the openness point,

Thank you for bearing with us on this point.  Later this fall I will  
be asking
PFWG to take a fresh look at to see if we can do a bit better yet.

> but
> the other two remain... it seems important for ARIA to say more
> about how it works with HTML...

Agreed.  We have created an issue on this (Member link, admittedly)
http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/Group/track/issues/67

.. and we will be continuing to talk with you because [I, at least,  
think] there are
things for ARIA to say about this and things for HTML to say.

Al

>>  2. ARIA specifications lack clear normative conformance criteria.  
>> I gave
>>     a bunch of examples of this in:
>>     http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-pfwg-comments/ 
>> 2008JanMar/0102.html
>>
>>  3. ARIA doesn't define how ARIA works in conjunction with existing
>>     features in HTML4, HTML5, and other specs. For example, if the  
>> HTML5
>>     "required" attribute indicates that a form control is required  
>> when
>>     the ARIA required attributes indicates that it is not. This  
>> was the
>>     second problem listed in:
>>     http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-pfwg-comments/ 
>> 2008JanMar/0102.html
>>     ...and was also mentioned in this e-mail which was cc'ed to you:
>>     http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2008Feb/0342.html
>>
>> Unless and until these three issues are addressed, I don't see any  
>> way in
>> which the ARIA proposals can be adopted in HTML5.
>
> Ian later wrote...
>
> On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 23:35 +0000, Ian Hickson wrote:
>> Defining how it works with HTML4 would probably be a reasonable level
>> at
>> the moment.
>
> p.s. tracker: ACTION-73
>
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