Re: Update ARIA Examples: Live Regions and Tab Panel

Does anyone see a need to have aria examples that are delivered to Firefox at "text/html" or should all examples be delivered to Firefox be "application/xhtml+html"?

Jon




---- Original message ----
>Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 19:20:12 +0100
>From: "Gez Lemon" <gez.lemon@gmail.com>  
>Subject: Re: Update ARIA Examples: Live Regions and Tab Panel  
>To: "Jon Gunderson" <jongund@uiuc.edu>
>Cc: "W3C WAI-PFWG" <w3c-wai-pf@w3.org>, "W3C WAI-XTECH" <wai-xtech@w3.org>
>
>
>Hi Jon,
>
>On 31/08/2007, Jon Gunderson <jongund@uiuc.edu> wrote:
>> I have been updating the ARIA examples being created the University of Illinois:
>>
>> http://test.cita.uiuc.edu/aria/
>>
>> Notably I have updated the live region examples to include both HTML
>> and xhtml versions.
>
>Have you considered using content negotiation to deliver the XHTML
>version to XML capable browsers and HTML to those that can't? I've
>used a similar approach with a simple slider example [1], although I
>don't try to provide ARIA properties to IE - it seems to work okay in
>screen readers with IE because it has an explicitly associated label.
>But you could do the same and deliver the ARIA properties to IE
>instead of having two versions of the examples.
>
>Best regards,
>
>Gez
>
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