Re: ARIA Proposal from Joshue O Connor on 2007-09-27 (public-xhtml2@w3.org from September 2007)

From: Joshue O Connor <joshue.oconnor@cfit.ie>
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 13:25:35 +0100
To: Matthew Raymond <mattraymond@earthlink.net>
Cc: public-xhtml2@w3.org, public-html <public-html@w3.org>, Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>, wai-xtech@w3.org
Message-ID: <46FBA13F.6020401@cfit.ie>

I don't wish to speak out of turn here as there are many on this list
who know more about this stuff than I do but it seems to me that using
something that specifically says "This is an ARIA attribute" may be
easier to author as it's origin/purpose etc is explicit by the use of
the ARIA prefix. So from that perspective what Mathew suggests;

| <div aria-role="checkbox" aria-checked="true"></div>

looks like a good idea. Or should the ARIA states/properties be authored
as more generic type elements that are hardwired into the spec rather
like the way heading and list elements or proposed elements a la
<figure> currently are?

Josh

Received on Thursday, 27 September 2007 12:26:08 UTC