Feed is limited to articles for now, but might be expanded to other elements in the future. We haven't researched all of those and it would be hard to tell whether an attribute would work in the future.
Maybe someone else has a better view on what the implications would be if feed was to be turned into an attribute.
—Michiel
> On 04 Dec 2015, at 01:03, Cynthia Shelly <cyns@microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> should feed a role? Or an attribute of some other roles? I can see main being a feed in the case of email or facebook, or aside being a feed when you have a twitter stream related to your blog.
>
> For facebook with your proposal, would you do
> <main>
> <feed>
> <article>
> <article>
> …
> </main>
>
> ?
>
>
> From: Richard Schwerdtfeger [mailto:schwer@us.ibm.com]
> Sent: Thursday, December 3, 2015 9:31 AM
> To: Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
> Cc: James Craig <jcraig@apple.com>; public-aria@w3.org; PF <public-pfwg@w3.org>
> Subject: Re: article navigation
>
> Yes, and as we have told them it is a very bad design to use articles as landmarks as there can be many of them. What is worse you can't tell that they are related. A feed would do that and it would provide navigation among the feed items.
>
> As a stop gap an AT could switch to article navigation and ignore the feed but I don't think that is the right idea for the reasons above long term. The feed is a list which provides context to the articles.
>
>
> Rich Schwerdtfeger
>
> <image001.gif>Steve Faulkner ---11/30/2015 02:43:02 PM---Rich, as far as I am aware the only AT that exposes <article> to users or
>
> From: Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
> To: Richard Schwerdtfeger/Austin/IBM@IBMUS
> Cc: James Craig <jcraig@apple.com>, PF <public-pfwg@w3.org>, public-aria@w3.org
> Date: 11/30/2015 02:43 PM
> Subject: Re: article navigation
>
>
>
>
> Rich,
>
> as far as I am aware the only AT that exposes <article> to users or provides navigation is JAWS,
> which exposes it as a (landmark) region and it is navigable along with all other landmarks using the R/shift+R keys.
>
> --
>
> Regards
>
> SteveF
> Current Standards Work @W3C
>
> On 30 November 2015 at 19:52, Richard Schwerdtfeger <schwer@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> Hi James,
>
> Does VoiceOver have a gesture navigation capability to move among articles on iOS?
>
> This is important in the context of ARIA Feeds.
>
> Rich
>
>
> Rich Schwerdtfeger
>
