Hello - I believe you are aware of the W3C Role Attribute specification [1] which allows the author to annotate markup languages with machine-extractable semantic information about the purpose of an element. This attribute as an important support for Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) 1.0 [2] and also can be used with RDFa [3]. This specification is currently a Candidate Recommendation, which means that technical development is complete and testing is underway. We hope soon to advance to Proposed Recommendation, which is a sign-off from the W3C Membership. We haven't received much input from the public and have decided to check with known interested parties to see if you have any concerns about the specification in its current form. Can you let us know either way, if you have any serious issues, or if you believe it would be ok to advance the specification. We request to hear from you by Monday, 29 October 2012. Thank you for your attention. For the W3C Protocols and Formats Working Group, Michael Cooper [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/role-attribute/ [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/ [3] http://www.w3.org/TR/rdfa-core/ -- Michael Cooper Web Accessibility Specialist World Wide Web Consortium, Web Accessibility Initiative E-mail cooper@w3.org <mailto:cooper@w3.org> Information Page <http://www.w3.org/People/cooper/>
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