Re: proliferation of reference roles in the dpub aria spec.

Proliferation of a new aria-* attribute to avoid role proliferation? I haven't yet seen any non-academic reason to make these anything other than standard links.

You could add a @rel value if you like. 
<a href="#" rel="bibliography">

I don't see a compelling reason for a new role or a new attribute.

James


> On Oct 8, 2015, at 5:17 PM, Richard Schwerdtfeger <schwer@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> As I said, I have had somewhat of a concern about the numerous definition of roles that are essentially links. The Coga task force wants to introduce and aria-destination attribute for links to create standard destinations users would go to to enable consistent style of the UI for familiarity to the user. 
> 
> See the aria-destination attribute from coga: https://rawgit.com/w3c/coga/master/issue-papers/links-buttons.html <https://rawgit.com/w3c/coga/master/issue-papers/links-buttons.html>
> 
> So for these roles I would prefer to have:
> 
> <div role="link" aria-destination="biblioentry"> as opposed to http://rawgit.com/w3c/aria/master/aria/dpub.html#dpub-biblioref <http://rawgit.com/w3c/aria/master/aria/dpub.html#dpub-biblioref>
> 
> similarly:
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> <div role="link" aria-destination="glossentry" as opposed to http://rawgit.com/w3c/aria/master/aria/dpub.html#dpub-glossref <http://rawgit.com/w3c/aria/master/aria/dpub.html#dpub-glossref>
> 
> This would cause us to start folding in some of the coga features into ARIA 1.1. 
> 
> Feedback? Coga has similar needs. 
> 
> Rich
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> 
> Rich Schwerdtfeger
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