- From: Phil Archer <phila@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 09:26:41 +0100
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
- CC: Shawn Henry <shawn@w3.org>, Henny Swan <hennys@opera.com>
Greetings from Mobile Land... One of the participants in our Introduction to W3C Mobile Web Best Practices course [1], Jeff Van Campen of the London Web Standards Group [2], raised this issue on the discussion forum. As that forum isn't public, I'm copying his mail here as I don't know the answer and I'm interested to know! === Jeff's message begins=== I was at WordCamp UK over the weekend (along with fellow Mobile Best Practice students Laura Kalbag and Gicela Morales). As a part of a hacking session Laura, myself and a few other WordPresser were looking at modifying Kubrick, the default WordPress theme, to work in a mobile context. One of the issues we ran into is that Kubrick includes WAI-ARIA roles as of WordPress 2.8. As we were working, we removed them, as this made validation easier. I understand that WAI-ARIA isn't supported on any mobile browsers yet, but I'd like to add them to the code for two reasons: 1. So that the code is future proof 2. So that they are discoverable by people examining the code, who may not know about WAI-ARIA That brings me to two questions: 1. Does anyone know of any issues with WAI-ARIA roles in existing mobile browsers? 2. Is it likely that WAI-ARIA will be included as a module in a future version of XHTML Basic? === ends === [1] http://www.w3.org/2009/03/mobitrain_course_description.html [2] http://londonwebstandards.org/ -- Phil Archer W3C Mobile Web Initiative http://www.w3.org/Mobile http://philarcher.org
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