aria-flowto changes user-agent behavior, which isn't the intended purpose of ARIA from James Craig on 2008-12-08 (wai-xtech@w3.org from December 2008)

From: James Craig <jcraig@apple.com>
Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2008 23:58:36 -0800
To: WAI XTech <wai-xtech@w3.org>
Message-Id: <A8F331AE-DB36-4ED6-8D3B-AE72717F89B4@apple.com>

aria-flowto changes user agent behavior, which isn't the intended  
purpose of ARIA.
http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/aria/#aria-flowto

If ARIA really needs this, we should move it to section 6.2.3 and make  
it a requirement of implementing host languages.
http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/aria/#host_general_focus

Received on Monday, 8 December 2008 07:59:28 UTC