adoption of dpub-aria

I added endnote markup according to dpub-aria[1] in mediawiki, the
software powering wikipedia[2]. During the review process there was the
question whether there were any real-world benefits:

> Is there a specific use-case for this feature, e.g., a real-world 
> screen-reader that reads the note differently based on the role? Or 
> at least one that plans to read it differently based on the role? I'm
> wary of adding properties to our HTML output just because they're 
> defined in a standard that someone theoretically might use, if we 
> don't know it would actually be useful in practice. There are lots
> of standards out there, and we could wind up with lots of extra 
> properties that clutter our HTML and don't actually add value to our 
> users.

Does anyone know of such use cases?

thanks,
tobias


[1]: https://www.w3.org/TR/dpub-aria-1.0/
[2]: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/extensions/Cite/+/459372/

Received on Thursday, 4 October 2018 07:36:35 UTC