ISSUE: difference between marquee and log in ARIA draft

• From: James Craig <jcraig@apple.com>
• Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:31:48 -0700
• To: W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>
• Message-Id: <9453F11D-46D1-42F5-9A1C-58A255E43C0B@apple.com>

ISSUE: difference between marquee and log in ARIA draft

Current wording: "A major difference between a marquee and a log is  
how fast it gets updates from timed or real world events."

The wording "how fast it gets updates" is vague and subjective. The  
spec says Marquee has an "assumed default live property value of  
'off'" but this could just be an explicit live property value on Log.  
It seems to me that the only real difference between Marquee and Log  
is the visual presentation. As I understand it, a Marquee is just a  
Log that scrolls sideways instead of vertically. If there is no other  
practical difference, we should remove the Marquee role and default to  
Log.

Received on Tuesday, 24 June 2008 17:32:28 UTC