- From: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2008 10:16:09 -0500
- To: "Justin James" <j_james@mindspring.com>
- Cc: "'James Craig'" <jcraig@apple.com>, "'Anne van Kesteren'" <annevk@opera.com>, "'Leif Halvard Silli'" <lhs@malform.no>, <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>, <public-html@w3.org>, "'W3C WAI-XTECH'" <wai-xtech@w3.org>, <www-tag@w3.org>
At 1:03 AM -0400 6/9/08, Justin James wrote: >James - > >> I think you may have missed the point of my JavaScript example. It was >> just one way you could insert ARIA semantics into the DOM by flagging >> an HTML class or id, or for that matter, by any CSS selector. The >> example was not my recommendation for how it should always be done. > >Ah, gotcha, thanks! > >> One thing you could do is to help ensure that all of the ARIA >> semantics get rolled into HTML 5. > >I fully support this, and I will be looking out for it. I think that ARIA is >too important to be *not* rolled 100% into HTML. First, it eliminates many >of my gripes with HTML as a presentation layer for application development >(HTTP is still wholly inadequate for the task...), by finally (15 years too >late) providing a mechanism for AT systems to "get" HTML. Secondly, it >provides a way to get really darned close to the semantic Web ideal. As someone reading all this from the sidelines, this direction of discussion seems to me to have gone into left field. Can anyone briefly explain what is meant by "ARIA <em>semantics</em>" (my emphasis), what CSS has got to do with semantics (in any sense), and what either of these is likely to do for the semantic Web? Isnt CSS entirely about, well, graphic style? I see nothing even slightly semantic in the question of whether some text items should be rendered in large red characters (say). If this is semantics, then we must be talking about entirely different notions of "semantic Web". What is your "semantic Web ideal" ? Thanks in advance for any explanations/pointers. Pat Hayes -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- IHMC (850)434 8903 or (650)494 3973 home 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola (850)202 4440 fax FL 32502 (850)291 0667 cell http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayes phayesAT-SIGNihmc.us http://www.flickr.com/pathayes/collections
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