- From: Jeremy Keith <jeremy@adactio.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 10:59:25 +0100
Henri asked: > do you think role=article is a legitimate and useful feature in ARIA? Pretty useful but not *as* useful as some of the biggies e.g. search, navigation, contentinfo, and all the roles to do with interaction. > Do you accept the notion that ARIA should become syntactically > obsolete over time so that its semantics are natively available in > HTML proper? (See http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-pfwg-comments/2009AprJun/0031.html > ) Now that's a big question. :-) If that is the one of the goals of HTML5 then aren't there going to be lots of existing role values that won't be covered by HTML? role="article" would probably be the least of them. But, even accepting that ARIA roles should be obsoleted by HTML, that's not the same as being obsoleted by HTML *elements*. It's still possible to specify that a <section> is of a particular type (e.g. article) without necessarily creating a new element for it. Otherwise we'd have to create <password>, <checkbox>, <radio> elements, etc. instead of using <input type="">. So an answer of "yes" to your question doesn't mean that every current ARIA role needs a corresponding distinct element in HTML. Yes. -- Jeremy Keith a d a c t i o http://adactio.com/
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