Re: <header> / <footer> & ARIA (was: Re: Proposal: <content> element)

On Aug 28, 2009, at 13:32, Steven Faulkner wrote:

>  the example for footer in the html 5 spec does not fit the  
> definition of contentinfo in the ARIA spec.

It seems silly to have almost one-to-one mapping between the new HTML5  
sectioning elements and ARIA landmarks but not quite one-to-one.  
Surely the reasonable thing to do here is to adjust either HTML 5 or  
ARIA or both so that the following mapping holds:

role=main == <main>
role=contentinfo == <footer>
role=banner == <header>
role=navigation == <nav>
role=complementary == <aside>
role=search == <form> with <input type=search> descendant

Of course, to make informed adjustments, the rationales for both the  
ARIA landmark set and the HTML5 element set need to be available for  
examination.

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Henri Sivonen
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Received on Friday, 28 August 2009 10:52:40 UTC