- From: Christophe Strobbe <christophe.strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be>
- Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:10:09 +0100
- To: wai-xtech@w3.org
- Cc: public-pfwg-comments@w3.org
At 07:47 25/03/2009, Ian Hickson wrote: >ARIA has a lot of attributes, all but one of which are prefixed with the >string "aria-". Is there any chance we could also prefix role="" with >"aria-", as in aria-role=""? I understand that in some host languages, the >attribute has other purposes as well, but it would be useful if, in the >host languages where that isn't the case, the attribute was prefixed. It >would keep all the attributes together in indexes and tables in >implementations, it would make it easier for authors to see their >accessibility API work, and it would highlight the link between the >various attributes. It would also allow ARIA to be used in vocabularies >that already have a role="" attribute (aria-* attributes are far less >likely to already exist than role=""). I thought this was because the role attribute wasn't meant to be constrained to WAI-ARIA. The attribute is defined at http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-role/ (working draft). Is this a proposal to separate WAI-ARIA's use of the role attribute from other uses? Best regards, Christophe Strobbe -- Christophe Strobbe K.U.Leuven - Dept. of Electrical Engineering - SCD Research Group on Document Architectures Kasteelpark Arenberg 10 bus 2442 B-3001 Leuven-Heverlee BELGIUM tel: +32 16 32 85 51 http://www.docarch.be/ --- Please don't invite me to LinkedIn, Facebook, Quechup or other "social networks". You may have agreed to their "privacy policy", but I haven't. Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm
Received on Wednesday, 25 March 2009 10:11:04 UTC