Re: How Can I Validate (X)HTML + ARIA?

ugh. ok. Michael we need to fix this.

Rich Schwerdtfeger
Distinguished Engineer, SWG Accessibility Architect/Strategist
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Hi Rich, the DTD in the spec only has aria- for each attribute name, for
example
"aria- ( true | false ) 'false'"

regards
steve

2009/1/20 Steven Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>:
> Hi Rich,
>
>>Have you tried the DTD toward the end of the ARIA editors draft?
>
> no will do.
>
>> Longer term the best way to check ARIA compliance will be based on
>> rule-based design patterns in addition to DTDs and schemas which are
>> targeted at static content. In general, tools manufacturers will need to
>> rethink accessibility compliance. Checking the DTD or schema is only a
first
>> pass.
>
> I totally agree,
>
> what the provision of public DTD's will do (if that is possible) is to
> allow developers who validate their code using public validation
> services to get meaningful feedback on thier ARIA code in HTML, rather
> than being nagged about its use.
>
>
> 2009/1/19 Richard Schwerdtfeger <schwer@us.ibm.com>:
>> Hi Steve,
>>
>> Have you tried the DTD toward the end of the ARIA editors draft?
>> http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/aria/ ?
>>
>> Michael should be keeping this up to date. There is a plan to release
either
>> a schema and/or a DTD. Right now we are working furiously to set the
ARIA
>> documents in concrete and there are limited resources.
>>
>> Longer term the best way to check ARIA compliance will be based on
>> rule-based design patterns in addition to DTDs and schemas which are
>> targeted at static content. In general, tools manufacturers will need to
>> rethink accessibility compliance. Checking the DTD or schema is only a
first
>> pass.
>>
>> This was posted on free-aria a while back:
>> http://groups.google.com/group/free-aria/msg/3d1f6e1b49e508d6
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Rich
>>
>>
>> Rich Schwerdtfeger
>> Distinguished Engineer, SWG Accessibility Architect/Strategist
>> blog: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/schwer
>>
>> Steven Faulkner ---01/19/2009 06:00:54 AM---How Can I Validate (X)HTML +
>> ARIA?
>>
>> Steven Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
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Steve Faulkner
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Director - Web Accessibility Tools Consortium

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