+1 to deprecate the two attrs, leave them in the spec, and add relevant notes about why they were deprecated and perhaps why the future of accessible drag&drop will rely on the host language specs like HTML.
> On Sep 21, 2015, at 10:18 AM, Richard Schwerdtfeger <schwer@us.ibm.com> wrote:
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> Other than James Craig,
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Does this mean you think I want it deleted from the spec? I don't think I ever said that.
James
> I agree based on what I have seen in the email traffic.
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> I have this cued up for formal vote in the ARIA task force meetings but I will put this out for straw poll vote.
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> Rich
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> Rich Schwerdtfeger
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> "White, Jason J" ---09/21/2015 11:23:58 AM---> On Sep 21, 2015, at 11:57, Richard Schwerdtfeger <schwer@us.ibm.com> wrote: >
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> From: "White, Jason J" <jjwhite@ets.org>
> To: Richard Schwerdtfeger/Austin/IBM@IBMUS
> Cc: James Craig <jcraig@apple.com>, Bryan Garaventa <bryan.garaventa@ssbbartgroup.com>, Chaals McCathie Nevile <chaals@yandex-team.ru>, Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs@igalia.com>, "lwatson@paciellogroup.com" <lwatson@paciellogroup.com>, "WAI Protocols &Formats" <public-pfwg@w3.org>
> Date: 09/21/2015 11:23 AM
> Subject: Re: ARIA 1.1: Deprecate @aria-grabbed and @aria-dropeffect
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> > On Sep 21, 2015, at 11:57, Richard Schwerdtfeger <schwer@us.ibm.com> wrote:
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> > Regardless, we are not debating that a better solution is needed. The issue here is we don't have an alternative. Until we do we should leave what we have deprecated vs. removing it.
> So far as I am aware, several participants in this discussion have supported deprecating these properties; no one, to my knowledge, has proposed removing them from the ARIA 1.1 spec.
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