- From: Steven Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:24:10 +0100
- To: "Al Gilman" <Alfred.S.Gilman@ieee.org>, "W3C WAI-XTECH" <wai-xtech@w3.org>
- Cc: www-validator@w3.org, "Bruce Lawson" <brucel@opera.com>
Members of the development community are asking for a way to check their HTML+ ARIA documents for conformance and one that does can be used to check all flavours of (x)HTML without all ARIA associated code being flagged as non conformant. lack of conformance checking is seen as a potential barrier to ARIA adoption by some[1] The experimental HTML5+ARIA checker developed by Henri Sivonen does this, but it is limited to the HTML5 doctype. It also flags issues based on a set of rules, defined by Henri, on what constitutes conformant HTML5+ARIA (for example role="document" is not allowed) [2]. Can we build ARIA checking into the W3C validator so that ARIA conformance can be checked seemlessly with HTML whatever the version? People seem to want a form of checking provided by the W3C that will tell them (for example) that their HTML code is valid and their ARIA code is valid. [1] Speeding adoption of WAI-ARIA http://www.brucelawson.co.uk/2008/speeding-adoption-of-wai-aria/ [2] ARIA in HTML5 Integration: Document Conformance (Draft) http://hsivonen.iki.fi/aria-html5-bis/ -- with regards Steve Faulkner Technical Director - TPG Europe Director - Web Accessibility Tools Consortium www.paciellogroup.com | www.wat-c.org Web Accessibility Toolbar - http://www.paciellogroup.com/resources/wat-ie-about.html
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