Re: WAI-ARIA language providing for strong and weak implicit semantics from host language.

Hi Al,

I believe there is no need for the middle "weak" concept.
We only need strong or no semantics. The semantically strong constructs 
are immune from ARIA.

Also, for each construct specified, whether they have a default ARIA role 
or provide additional ARIA properties is an additional, separate decision.

So, this document would ultimately be simplified into two groups:
http://hsivonen.iki.fi/aria-html5-bis/

FWIW, Henri Sivonen, the original author of the strong/weak/no concept, 
agreed that it's a good simplification.

- Aaron



From:
Al Gilman <Alfred.S.Gilman@ieee.org>
To:
W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>
Date:
12/04/2008 03:24 AM
Subject:
WAI-ARIA language providing for strong and weak implicit semantics from 
host language.





Re:
http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/Group/track/issues/67
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2008Dec/att-0011/01-part

This is a 'scratch draft' that is to say forked from the main line of
Editor's draft versions.  It is a strawman rewrite of 6.2 and 7.3 to
make room for host languages to provide built-in semantics
that takes over from ARIA markup where appropriate.

Please read over the draft and see if there is

a) a simpler way to say it that is still correct.
b) anything we missed.

Al