Re: Document conformance: Integrating ARIA into HTML5

Hi Henri, 
Could you clarify the 'banning' of the document role.

An example use for it in HTML would be to indicate to AT that a section of
an application is to be interpreted as a html document.

For example, in a mail application, the section of the application that acts
as a container to read and edit messages is marked up as role="document",
this triggers the AT to change mode from application to document reading.

Example: 
<body role="application">
<menu>
<div role="document">
Message text
</div>
</body>

Also in cases where the purpose of the page is to be an application why is
it not possible to mark up the body element with a role of application?
When the alternative involves adding extra markup.

<body>
<div role="application">
<menu>
<div role="document">
Message text
</div>
</div>
</body>


Btw
It would be good if you could modify the status of 'input type=image' as
discussed previously.

with regards

Steve Faulkner
Technical Director - TPG Europe
Director - Web Accessibility Tools Consortium

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Received on Tuesday, 23 September 2008 08:36:06 UTC