Re: @role in SVG

On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 17:27:07 +0200, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>  
wrote:

> On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 14:47:50 +0200, Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>  
> wrote:
>> The suggestion here is to instead use:
>>
>>     <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
>>      ...
>>      <circle role="checkbox" aria-checked="true" .../>
>>
>> Correct?
>
> Yeah. It only makes sense on HTML and SVG anyway as those languages have  
> a concept of focus (which could be shared better, arguably).

Ok.

I've updated the spec and the test cases to remove support for html:role  
altogether and add support for role="" and aria-foo="" on SVG elements.

    http://simon.html5.org/specs/aria-proposal
    http://simon.html5.org/test/aria/

At some point perhaps the aaa:foo="" attributes can be removed as well.

Cheers,
-- 
Simon Pieters
Opera Software

Received on Thursday, 4 October 2007 17:19:59 UTC