- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 04:40:18 +0100
- To: "Chris Blouch" <chris.blouch@corp.aol.com>, "James Craig" <jcraig@apple.com>
- Cc: "'W3C WAI-XTECH'" <wai-xtech@w3.org>
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:24:49 +0100, Chris Blouch <chris.blouch@corp.aol.com> wrote: > I think Matt Machell wasn't saying so much that role:slider was a style > but that we should embrace using something like CSS selectors to map one > or more DOM nodes to one or more sets of ARIA attributes. Call it a > shorthand way to add semantics. If I have 20 sliders and each one is a > constructed by a <div class="slider"></div> it seems systemically wrong > to have to put in all the ARIA attributes inline repeatedly whether by > hand or via a dom walking script. We should have a means to infer the > applicable ARIA semantic attributes from the already stated class or > other other fingerprints defined by the selector. Maybe the problem is > folks call them CSS selectors when really they could be used for broader > purposes. Imagine all the handy stuff the selector cascade process could > do to auto-generate appropriate ARIA markup for the same generalized > chunk of HTML based on the context of its location in the DOM. All those > joys and challenges of specificity could be made to work for ARIA as > well. XBL 2.0 will allow that. ETA unknown. -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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