- From: Aaron Leventhal <aaronlev@moonset.net>
- Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 10:34:49 -0400
- To: wai-xtech@w3.org
The code to simplify ARIA in HTML was checked into Firefox 3 builds last night. In Firefox 3 you don't need enable.js or setAttributeNS() to use ARIA. You don't need namespaces at all, even in the role name. In HTML you can just do something like: <span role="checkbox" aria-checked="true">My checkbox</span> The namespaced attributes are still supported, for backwards compatibility and use within XML-based markup, such as XHTML, XUL or SVG. There are still some tweaks under discussion. We will work with HTML WG and other browser manufacturers to provide a specification of exactly how it works, such the fact that namespaced attributes take precedence over hyphenated aria- attributes. Firefox 3 is scheduled to be released this December or January. Nightly "bleeding edge" versions are available for download here: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/ - Aaron
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