ISSUE: ARIA Draft UA Conformance

http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/aria/#uaconf

Current wording:

User agents SHOULD expose role, state, and property information  
provided by the author to the platform accessibility API (using the  
values as determined in steps 2 and 3 above). Refer to Mapping States  
and Properties to Accessibility APIs ([ARIA-PRACTICES], Section 12.1)  
for guidance about how to expose this information. This requirement  
parallels User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 Section 6.3:  
Programmatic Access to non-HTML/XML Content ([UAAG], Section 6.3),  
except that it applies even to HTML and XML content.


I move that user agents MUST expose the information if an appropriate  
mapping exists:

User agents MUST expose role, state, and property information provided  
by the author to the platform accessibility API (using the values as  
determined in steps 2 and 3 above) if an appropriate mapping exists.  
Refer to Mapping States and Properties to Accessibility APIs ([ARIA- 
PRACTICES], Section 12.1) for guidance about how to expose this  
information. This requirement parallels User Agent Accessibility  
Guidelines 1.0 Section 6.3: Programmatic Access to non-HTML/XML  
Content ([UAAG], Section 6.3), except that it applies even to HTML and  
XML content.

Received on Friday, 27 June 2008 23:42:01 UTC