Re: Extensible ARIA?

hi leonie,

have a look at thread(s) on public PF list on aria-roledescription
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-pfwg/2014Apr/

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SteveF
HTML 5.1 <http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/>


On 2 April 2014 09:15, Léonie Watson <lwatson@paciellogroup.com> wrote:

> Hello,
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> Web components offer exciting possibilities, and accessibility is going to
> need to keep pace with this potential. This came up at EdgeConf recently,
> where ARIA was widely thought to be the solution amongst developers.
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> I'm not sure that ARIA (as it stands) can keep pace with the near infinite
> range of components that developers could/will create? It seems improbable
> that the ARIA spec could ever encompass every/any element/role that a
> developer might conjure up.
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> Jeremy Keith made this point at EdgeConf, and also suggested the
> possibility of ARIA becoming extensible [1].
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> I thought it was worth raising here for discussion. Apologies if it's
> already being discussed here or elsewhere.
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> Léonie.
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> [1] http://adactio.com/journal/6719/
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> Senior Accessibility Engineer, TPG
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> @LeonieWatson @PacielloGroup
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