- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 15:13:31 +0200
- To: "Matthew Raymond" <mattraymond@earthlink.net>, "Simon Pieters" <simonp@opera.com>
- Cc: public-html <public-html@w3.org>, public-xhtml2@w3.org, "wai-xtech@w3.org" <wai-xtech@w3.org>
On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 05:38:17 +0200, Matthew Raymond <mattraymond@earthlink.net> wrote: > With regard to the |role| attribute, I suggest you replace it with an > attribute named "aria-role" for the following reasons: > > 1) It maintains consistency with your aria-/attribute/ nomenclature. > > 2) You don't have to modify the parsing of the |role| attribute to treat > ARIA elements as if they were in the XHTML namespace. Instead, you have > a separate attribute that only takes the roles defined in the WAI-ARIA > Roles spec. I'm not sure how this is an advantage though. If you would go down this path you would have to define interaction between role= aria-role html:role= which seems worse than just defining the interaction between role= and html:role=. Actually, if you also introduce html:aria-role for other languages than HTML to make it all consistent it becomes even more complicated. I agree that it would've been nice if all attributes used the aria- prefix, but we already have some deployed content here plus it seems to me that giving up role= is not that big of a deal. -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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