- From: Henny Swan <hennys@opera.com>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 07:33:33 +0100
- To: Jeff Van Campen <jeff@otrops.com>
- Cc: Phil Archer <phila@w3.org>, w3c-wai-ig@w3.org, Shawn Henry <shawn@w3.org>
Hi All, I would agree with what has been said by Marco. WAI-ARIA needs to be fully implemented in the Desktop before it can be contemplated in mobile. RIM are indeed talking about it as are we over at Opera. There's not a whole lot of information out there beyond that at the moment to my knowledge however. I'm guessing because it's early days. Henny On 21 Jul 2009, at 22:33, Jeff Van Campen wrote: > Hello, > > Peter Westwood, Marco Zehe and I had a quick discussion about this on > twitter (see http://twitter.com/MarcoZehe/status/2727754646 for > Marco's response). > > But if anyone has any information on issues with WAI ARIA (other than > a lack of support) in mobile browsers, I'd love to know about it. > > Thanks, > > -jeff > > > > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Phil Archer <phila@w3.org> wrote: >> >> 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 >> -- Henny Swan Web Evangelist Member of W3C Web Accessibility Initiative Education and Outreach Group www.opera.com/developer Personal blog: www.iheni.com Stay up to date with the Web Standards Curriculum www.opera.com/wsc
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